Landau's "taut, elegant, highly controlled constructions" have been described as "confessional and direct, like Sylvia Plath and Allen Ginsberg."
"[1] Jennifer Michael Hecht has praised her poems as "Terrificly smart, witty, and slightly terrifying.
"[2] Nick DePascal asserts that Landau's work "accurately matches form to content" and "leads the reader down a particular path through style as much as the meaning of the actual words on the page...."[3] Publishers Weekly has described her work as "haunting," "stunning," "dark, urgent, sexy, deeply sad, and, above all, powerful.
Landau's most recent books are Soft Targets (2019) and The Uses of the Body,[6] which was published in 2015 by Copper Canyon Press and was a Lannan Literary Selection.
[7] Deborah Landau is currently a professor and director of the Creative Writing Program at New York University.