Reviews of Eat Quite Everything You See

One of the Kansas City Star’s “100 Best Books of 2002”

“Eat Quite Everything You See is a book of hungers sated and unsated, a compendium of erotic surprise. At once urgent and urbane, intimate and grand, gravid and luscious, her poems offer delight and sustenance as they illuminate the largest questions. Eat Quite Everything You See is, quite simply, a feast.” —Alice Fulton

“The fierce, passionate observation and the rich pageantry of Leslie Adrienne Miller’s poems have astonished me for twenty years now. Deeply original and constantly compelling, she is a poet as capable of deft portraiture as she is of wise philosophical and cultural reckonings. Don’t miss this remarkable book.” —David St. John

“Taking a bite out of life is daunting and thrilling, as Leslie Adrienne Miller’s sage new poems show. Eat Quite Everything You See follows Miller’s steps—in all their imaginative, thoughtful, stumbling elegance—toward an unexpected goal: not marriage, not children, but an intelligently measured inner journey. The surprise manifestation of trading the nest for the road comes as the poet eats one of Jacques Prévert’s peaches, Miller’s luscious gesture of contentment in this gutsy, solo, international life in verse.” —Molly Peacock