“Rosemarie Sprouls is an acute observer of life, writing poems full of vigor, love, and insight. Her poems are tender and luminous.”
~ Luanne Rice, author of The Geometry of Sisters, and The Deep Blue Sea for Beginners

“... a shrewd, witty and touching excursion into childhood, family life, and femalehood.“
~ Jim Klein, author of Blue Chevies and editor of The Rutherford Red Wheelbarrow

“Like articles of a lost but oddly familiar world, these poems seem to stream around the opening of a river into the sea. They cohere and pull apart, cohere again and find magical conjunctions. I liked watching, as in reading, them.”
~ Fanny Howe, author of The Lyrics

“Rosemarie Sprouls examines the world with a sharp eye and a warm heart. I found myself going back to her poems again and again.”
~ Penelope Dugan, Professor of Writing, Richard Stockton College of New Jersey

“A dazzling debut—here is a book that combines Sprouls' perfect pitch with her muscular language, fierce immediacy, and haunting insights. If More Possum than Turtle were a concert, you would not want to miss it.”
~ Laura Boss, Lips Magazine