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"[A] moving lament of the disconnect between how we want to treat each other and how the world wants us to treat each other."
- Chris Tonelli, Open Letters Monthly, 9.08.09
"Abject hopelessness, awkward fumbling, and gentle anomie rarely feel so touching and funny as they do in the hands of Ellen Kennedy"
- Kathleen Rooney, Octopus Magazine, 7.24.09
"[Brandon Scott Gorrell] and [Ellen Kennedy] are the most talented young poets I've read in years, and their books are stunning."
- Michael Schaub, Bookslut, 6.29.09
"20-year old Ellen Kennedy's Sometimes My Heart Pushes My Ribs is a gorgeous collection dealing with awkwardness, sex, fragility, affection and prosaic flights of fantasy in which Woody Allen is 'outed' and a lost manatee orbits Earth." - George Taylor, Plan B, 6.19.09
"[T]here is nothing that distracts the reader, nothing that pulls the reader away from the page." - Lee Rourke, 3:AM, 5.20.09
"She has this odd way of making you want to run for a pencil so that you can imitate her style." - Bookfoolery and Babble, 3.25.09
"[Makes you want to] give somebody a hug. Your girlfriend or wife or dog. To eat better. To write better." - David Miller, Matador, 3.20.09
"[R]apid-fire Gilmore-Girls-dialogue paced celeb-namechecking pieces of Gawkerpoetry." - Russ Marshalek, Baby Got Books, 3.13.09
"There's a kind of prose poetry that Ellen Kennedy has tapped into. It seems familiar if you've read Roland Barthes or Jim Carroll, and yet it is nothing like either." - "Recommended," Fanzine, 3.12.09
"The whole book made me want to type in lower-case letters and chase around aging icons of Hollywood, trying to fuck them." - Brian Ries, FREEwilliamsburg, 3.12.09
"This poetry makes your brain hum. If I could write poetry I would want it to be like these poems." - Craig Snyder, Rumble Magazine, 2.28.09
"I am glad Ellen Kennedy wrote a book." - Chris Moran, Saint John's Wort, 2.27.09
"...feature[s] poems about nervousness, loneliness, Woody Allen, and Norm MacDonald." - Mallory Rice, Nylon Magazine, 2.25.09
"I would buy this and give it to people I like." - Amanda Levendowski, The Little Apple, 2.24.09
"I think there is something kind of revolutionary about [the first and last stories in the book]." - Darby Larson, Blog, 2.22.09
"It's simply brilliant and funny and sad, but sweetly so." - Todd Colby, Gleefarm, 2.22.09
"Ellen's work is addictive, you can re read her simple sentences many times and garner new moods each time." - Kendra Grant Malone, Tricoteuse, 2.19.09
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