"These poems are tender, fierce, courageous and well-honed,alternately mad as hell and funny as hell. If this is where poetry is going, we may be okay after all." --Rebecca Ellis, editor, Cherry Pie Press. . . "Rankovic is not a poet of the sweet-words-and-tender-emotions school. No, she wields words like filet blades -- a few swift cuts and the heart lies exposed, glistening with traces of blood." --St. Louis Magazine