All writing is also an act of deep reading. Gail Wronsky's new collection, So Quick Bright Things, intimately recalibrates A Midsummer Night's Dream in order to reveal the force of the marvelous within our ordinary, daily lives, as well as the darkness that surrounds and penetrates each of our dreams. Disjunctive yet cohesive, mythic yet immediate, surreal yet inevitable, this sequence dismantles the clichés of male/female relations along with the presumptions of contemporary poetic discourse. Titania, Queen of Fairyland, is the presiding yet often troubled presence in this volume, which can be read as a brilliant, sobering, and staggeringly inventive book-length ars poetica. Once again, Gail Wronsky proves she has no equal in reckoning our age's cultural and sexual debris.
—David St. John