"Treadwell's fifth full-length collection comes on like the Ritalin-addicted
younger sister of Juliana Spahr's This connection of everyone with lungs."
—Sophie Mayer, Delirium's Library
"Elizabeth Treadwell's is a difficult but deeply rewarding poetry.
It has a precision and a tenderness all of its own."
—Nathan Thompson, Stride
"If you want a feminist invention that is at once comic
and confident, melodic and bizarre, affectionate and committed
to its principles—then Treadwell is the next poet for you."
—Stephen Burt, The Believer
"This is a feminine poetry, marvelous, tough, and unrelenting...
Treadwell subverts and exposes unconsciously internalized
stereotypes and voices, breaking language down, and then
releasing the reader to make her own understanding. The result
isn't narrative--and is not always even mood or atmosphere,
but a series of rising challenges that relax into moments
of clear beauty."—Maureen Thorson, Boog City
"Treadwell arrives at a musicality that is feminist and angular;
that is Gertrude Stein and Mina Loy; that is pointed and luminous;
that is, in short, Lilyfoil, not lily flower.”—Juliana Spahr
"Elizabeth Treadwell's writing, in which human (usually female)
figures appear amidst fantastically embroidered surfaces,
demonstrates
volubility, humor, and intelligence in spades.
[Chantry is] a radiant sourcebook."—Joyelle McSweeney, Rain Taxi
“In our culture now, poets like Elizabeth Treadwell keep the voice of real
pain, triumph, defeat, and imagination alive…Treadwell writes from inside
people, not about them or around them.”—Fabula
Eleanor Ramsey: the Queen of Cups (novel, SFSU, 1997)
out of print
"Elizabeth Treadwell is young, she's poetic,
and she kicks some serious ass!"—Quentin Tarantino
"Will delight fans of Eileen Myles and Burroughs."—Factsheet 5