"The poet laureate of the Precariat"
-Barbara Ehrenreich

"Alissa Quart's poems are nimble and seething, capturing our baroquely scurrilous world. She writes across the holes of what's been lost, hopeless and strangely optimistic at once."
--Eileen Myles

"Quart's poems have impeccable technique and pleasure-giving verve. A book of grit, danger, and paradoxical elegance."
--Wayne Koestenbaum

"Thoughts and Prayers is a beautiful, necessary book."
--Karen E. Bender

"With hilarious wit and trenchant lyricism, Quart plumbs everyday experiences and late capitalism."
--Celina Su

PRAISE FOR QUART'S POETRY:

"Dense, aphoristic, playful..."
--The New Yorker

"A keen observer of our culture and a believer in the power of poetry to cut to the heart of issues around us: money, class, gender and the environment."
--NPR

"Quart turns the insecure conditions that shape our lives today into beautiful jagged verse: the poetry of careers replaced by gigs, of workplaces transformed into WeWork, of a country with no promise, ever, of simple safety."
--Barbara Ehrenreich

"Every movement, from splicing, to condensation to litany, has an unprecedented intensity, informative politics, surprise and audacious flair."
--Wayne Koestenbaum

"[Quart] has perfect pitch."
--The Philadelphia Inquirer

"[Her poems] reveal her keen sociological eye and serve as remarkably apt cultural critiques."
--Publishers Weekly

"Quart's laser-sharp phrases...have a way of sticking around in your head long after you turn the final page."
--Alternet

"The irony of our predicament . . . is delightfully disclosed not only in the speaker's waggish yet tempered tone, but also in the sheer refinement of [her] free verse."
--The Boston Review