"[3]The book's poems span topics like love, divinity, and family, specifically Lee's father who was a political prisoner in Indonesia for a year.

It’s the same problem I have, in the less ecstatic hours, with certain poems by Rilke, one of Lee’s primary influences: a poetry that attests to euphoria doesn’t automatically convey it."

[5] Major Jackson, in a review for Poets.org, said the book "unequivocally aims for passionate, pure, and enchanted speech, taking the lyric poem as more than a vessel for perfunctory, manufactured feeling".

O'Connor paid close attention to Lee's family history, interpreting the poetry collection to be "like memoir".

Perhaps this is why his language in this collection is so syncretic, so wildly alive and allusive with references to anime, science fiction, the Hebrew Bible, Gnosticism, Shakespeare, hip-hop and the gospel of John.

Again, Myers observed a possible likeness to Rilke but also "the compressed, ideogrammatic lucidity of classical Asian poetry, as well as the oracular expansiveness of prophets ranging from Isaiah to Whitman.

Ultimately, she found the poetry collection to be "careful and passionate" as well as a "mindful approach" to "the sometimes-horror of realizing our reality".

"[10] The Rumpus argued in favor of certain poetry lengths: "The longer poems in the collection bookend the text and help frame its ideas regarding God and love—the holy, the erotic, and intimacy.