March 23, 2012: Renaissance Society of American Annual Conference, Washington DC

"Dazzling ... She writes with Milton open at her elbow but with the real dirt of a real Utah under her fingertips."

— The Yale Review

"It is a beautiful book, and an unusual one ... Its remarkable lucidity, its seductive energy, its lushness, and its music form a vision in which the real and the transcendental are indistinguishable."

— Mark Strand

A Poem of the Land

"Kimberly Johnson's superbly colourful, rhythmic and readable new translation...finds a way of feeding the Virgilian strain of English verse – from Milton to Wordsworth and beyond – back into her lines."

— The Independent (UK)