[Sarah Arvio] has turned herself into a poet of two minds, a spiritual apprentice to those "abstracted from humanness on the physical plane." The result is a splendidly odd and compelling first book… Each poem invokes airborne visitors from another realm who drop in and out of consciousness at will, like a ghostly chorus. The spirits occupy a transitional zone they call the seventh sense, "the one we sometimes share with you”… There is a strong suggestion that the poet has summoned the voices out of a deep need for them, out of loneliness and longing. "I longed for the river of what they were/ to flow through the channel of what I was…” —Edward Hirsch

"Sarah Arvio's poems engage in an agitated description of the inner life: voices come to her like thoughts and attitudes, like angels really, that reason and mystify...  The voices drop in and out, like a beautiful quixotic chorus.  But these poems are not confessional or sad; rather, they are an extended hymn to the assuaging power of the imagination." --Mark Strand