Critical Commentary
Krysl is funny, fierce, and feminist in the best possible way, and a technician of variety and resourcefulness. –John Updike
Her great, rambunctious sestinas anticipate ‘New Formalism’, but in their modulated wildness and disciplined strangeness, they are better than any of it. —Jonathan Holden
She has a poet’s compression, a novelist’s feel for the whole, and she is bitterly funny. Rosellen Brown
Krysl’s poetry is funny, funky, tragic, brave, lyrical, humane, political and full of surprises….She is still writing the liveliest sestinas in America. –Alicia Ostriker
The more political Krysl gets, the bleaker the results—think William Burroughs without the Misogyny. Her piece “Welcome to the Torture Center, Love,” concerning a night journey through the inferno that is war-torn Sudan, is a dazzler. –Kirkus Revi
