"Odalisque in Pieces renews our sense of what a collection can do. This is a poet of mystery, power, and also ancient wisdom: 'Moths are often still. / Give me a moth and a thread of black silk, / and I'll show you history.' Carmen Giménez Smith brings us news both of this world, and the one before it." Laura Kasischke, author of Lilies Without

"Odalisque in Pieces pitches its tent on that fertile border where language means (often with an engaging inner logic of its own) or where the poem mostly 'holds itself upon its sounds.' Put another way: Giménez Smith is promiscuous when exploring the best our poetries make available to anyone fearless enough to move beyond their comfort zones. This work is 'mumbled indecency of the sweetest kind.'" Francisco Aragon, editor of The Wind Shifts: New Latino Poetry