What critics say: “The Becoming Game is a masterful work powered by her radiant imagination and her uncommon emotional range and depth. Cisewski’s voice is so prominent and clear here that each poem feels read to you as much as read by you. You will hear her, right by your side, pointing out every little bird, art’s magnificent and sometimes perplexing power, everything in between, and possibilities beyond.”
—Michael Kleber-Diggs, Author of Worldly Things
“The Becoming Game shuffles the arcana into poems that are communal, intimate, divinatory, and linguistically exquisite. This book is a compelling tour-de-force of cartomancy and poetry.”
—Lee Ann Roripaugh, Author of tsunami vs. the fukushima 50
“Precise, furious, political, controversial, paradoxical, provocative, confessional, intimate, friendly, honest, metric, exuberant, crazy, subdued poetry. Everything here contradicts and collides because this poetry contains many voices, many styles, many stories, but they all belong to one author. “
—Grzegorz Kwiatowski, Author of Crops
