These new poems are full of rich, tough, lusty images. They are courageous and revealing. — Susan Salter Reynolds, Los Angeles Times Book Review
Wolverton's recent book explores the treacherous territory of memory, relationships, and desire. Her voice is passionate yet controlled, confessional without being tiresome or self-indulgent. — Ed Madden, The Texas Triangle
The strange fruit of love blooms and ripens and falls in Terry Wolverton's haunting poems. By turns melancholy and hilarious, an exquisite mix of tensile strength, blunt talk, and whiplash metaphor, the poems in BLACK SLIP never falter as they chart their way through the undersea of the heart. For sheer power read "The Study of Volcanology." Sometimes the drama is as intense as Chekhov, as in the harrowing "Rabbit Puppets." I've been an admirer of Ms. Wolverton's for a long time. It's thrilling to see the fruition of these new poems, the fearlessness and the tenderness. Ms. Wolverton is becoming a necessary writer for us all. — Paul Monette, author, Becoming a Man