"What beauty in Slow Dance on Stilts ... Strange and beautiful. What I find most exciting about the book is its wit, its sense of humor and playfulness even as it embodies our hunger for the sublime. It’s a record of heart-work and evidence of alchemical experiments in wedding the material with the spiritual. Thank you, Marie, for writing these poems.
Congratulations, fellow pilgrim!"
-- Li-Young Lee
Book of My Nights

"Like Sylvia Plath, Jordan is unstinting in a way that bespeaks true Sturm and Drang; yet Jordan is withal a survivor. And whereas Plath’s humor is ever dark and cutting, Jordan gives over to mirth as part of an ongoing cycle of affirmation. The poems in this book are broadly exoteric, which is to say each poem is crowded with multi-dimensional images and impressions, and her vivid, even fantastical descriptions create a mood in which one arrives at her perspective unconsciously."
-- Paul Stangeland
Editor: Poetry Conspiracy

"Marie Jordan writes with a language-compass, one that burns a human phosphor needle, ready to flicker and stretch into something like the soul or beyond passion. This is a lyrical search through body-time, terrain, and the crescendos of the senses. Every poem "unravels shrines" and the betrayals of our humanity. Jordan writes with a big light."
-- Juan Felipe Herrera
Night Train to Tuxlta

"Marie Jordan’s poems explore a landscape from California to Italy, or rather discover in that landscape the small details we so often overlook. Here are poems that take us from the shore to a hospital to a kitchen in order to know "itness and innerness -- a poem/a force/ equal only to its weight." SLOW DANCE ON STILTS is filled with poems that discover not only what it means to survive as in "Survival Monologue." But what it means to be able to speak and define that survival with considerable force."
-- Richard Jackson
The Dismantling of Time in Contemporary Poetry

"I stand in awe of Marie Jordan’s ability to capture the essence of relationships ranging from the mother-new baby bonding to lovers meeting and parting, and to a great-niece caring for her elderly aunt. Marie dips into all these relationships and shows a zest for living, a love of language and of the human. You can’t meet Marie without experiencing her zest for all that is life, and you can’t read her writing without feeling her presence."
-- Donna Walker Nixon
Editor: New Texas Literary Quarterly