I adored your book. I read it obsessively all one night, it's like a thriller, I love the form--not since La Vita Nuova and two books by Berryman, one prose and one poetry about the same thing. I felt the delicacy and sweet seductiveness of that little girl you were … the writing is so precise, almost scientific. —Edmund White, in a personal email
“night thoughts…is an original, bold and very beautiful work. I recommend it to you all. It is absolutely stunning in its beauty and its honesty, its straightforwardness… It should be read by everybody who is interested in dreams. I was thinking the candidates should read this book because it tells us how dreams work. [Sarah Arvio] knows a lot about dream work, condensation, symbolization, displacement: all beautifully illustrated both in her poems and in the notes. And if you read the index, it’s almost like a poem in itself it’s a remarkable confluence of poetry, notes and index, as I understand it. —Dan Jacobs, Director, Hanns Sachs Library, Boston Psychoanalytic Society and Institute, in an introduction to a presentation of night thoughts, November 2013.
Alfred A. Knopf, 2013