"Tight phrasings and a gorgeous, wild precision of images make Greenberg's writing, in her first collection, an ongoing recognition of the mystery of subjectivity as shared disaster and continuous, erratic, communal regeneration. Opening the possibilities for poetry, Given also enriches our sense of the depth of the event and enlarges our idea of community, restoring our sense of wonder: 'What everyone is doing in this room while they sit quietly is more beautiful to me than any speaker.' Something astonishing and wonderful is happening in this verse."
--Laura Mullen

"Steel, brains, blood, and rapidest versatility, an innovative approach to one of the oldest traditions on earth-poetry-and the longing to move it forward to the speed of synapse. These are the gifts Arielle Greenberg has given us in Given."
--Mary Ruefle

"The shapes of things shift in Arielle Greenberg's wonderful book Given. The poems violate the edges of topic, speaker, and narrative again and again; they invite you to "Come choose the terrible choice." They demand but oh they reward."
--C. S. Giscombe