Mira Gonzalez

[4][5][6][7] According to Liza Darwin in Nylon magazine, Gonzalez is part of a "whole new crop of cool girl poets" whose work is "clever, totally unfiltered, and peppered with twisted insight and refreshing humor.

[15] In one poem, according to reviewer Emily Bludworth de Barrios, Gonzalez repeats a sequence of words for emphasis, a technique sometimes called anaphora, to emphasize emotion.

"[16] Filmmaker and screenwriter Lena Dunham wrote in The Guardian that the book was one of her favorites for 2014, and that it brings "experimental poetry into the internet age with dark, distinctly female riffs on ambition, depression and love.

"[17] Reviewer Emma-Lee Moss in The Guardian wrote that Gonzalez's persona is "radical in its contradictions – her voice is both punk and disinterested, both promiscuous and not particularly sexual.

"[10] The New Inquiry called Gonzalez's poetry "a paragon of flat writing and ambivalence toward emotion" that "conjures an affectively messy universe.