Ada Limon Cortland Review

"At a moment when arguments rage about poetry’s competing responsibilities to a community and to the solitary dream and vision, [Paula] Meehan reminds us that it is possible to take both sides: proud to have seen the “changed relationship to hierarchical ideas around the canon and who makes it, who shakes it”, she is also clear that “poetry is not sociology, poetry is not history”." John McAuliffe Irish Times