[3] Reviews were mixed for Fitzgerald's debut collection, The Late Parade, published by W.W. Norton/Liveright in 2013.
David Kirby in The New York Times Book Review wrote: "There are plenty of poets who are word-drunk and plenty of others who slap down allusions faster than a blackjack dealer.
The result is a poetry as lush as any of Keats’s odes, as textured as a corridor in the Louvre.
"[4] Annalisa Pesek, writing for Library Journal, described the book as "an overstuffed collection, in a vocabulary overwrought with irony and busyness" and called the poems "airless, written in overambitious language that sounds desperate".
[5] Julian Gewirtz, writing for the Boston Review, said "the effects deployed can feel overwhelming or gaudy, almost mannerist".