Again the Gemini are in the Orchard
1991
Nerve, wit, dazzle, shape-shifting, a painful clearness; an urgent, generous, funny, dreadful intensity of imagination; a sometimes dizzying sense of costumes being shrugged off, masks tried on and discarded: this is a wonderful first book. Gail Wronsky's resourcefulness before the rickety, precarious, desirable look of things is wonderful, and so is her seriousness, and so is her ear for the textures of language, uptown and downtown.
—Robert Hass
There is a melancholic yet jaunty tone to these brilliant poems. "I'm dressed up in cement/and ready to go to the river" says one undismayed speaker. Again and again her lines "gather audacity" as she fuses imagination with inventiveness, a viruosity of language with a cryptic and feeling wit.
—Gregory Orr