As a whole, Jane Satterfield’s “Apocalypse Mix” offers a challenging integration of history into the present day. With these sensitive poems, Satterfield possesses the ability to make the past a living present. She teaches us the difficult lesson that we are each responsible for the past which precedes us. These poems are a splendid gift to the socially conscious reader. Satterfield is as generous as she is wise. http://www.journal-news.net/weekender/2017/02/exploring-war-past-and-present-with-poetry/—Sonja James, The Journal
The clear implication is that in our time fear seems to lurk everywhere. Jane Satterfield’s Apocalypse Mix, winner of the 2016 Autumn House Poetry Prize, maps this terrain and serves as measure, warning, and guide.—Margaret Rozga, Mom Egg Review
Jane Satterfield delivers one revelation after another — from her own young life to a world view reflected in history. Each poem is a construction William Carlos Williams would be proud of — every line an arbiter.—Grace Cavalieri, Washington Independent Review of Books
These are intelligent, well-researched poems that encompass both personal and universal worlds. Her exploration of history is both authentic and engaging. The strength of these poems lies in their density, lyric grace and multi-layered complexity. http://galatearesurrects2017.blogspot.com/2017/03/apocalypse-mix-by-jane-satterfield.html—Neil Leadbeater, Galatea Resurrects
She hews closely to a scholarly approach, while moving effortlessly into personal insights. “We might well consider/this week’s body count, the sorrow sustained in our announcer’s/stern voice or the one tune/from the man at the top: we must find alternatives to fossil fuel,/same static we’ve been hearing/as long as we’ve been listening.” http://www.mysanantonio.com/entertainment/arts-culture/books/article/Book-review-Experimental-Madwoman-marks-11046710.php#photo-12657659—Roberto Bonazzi, My San Antonio
...Jane Satterfield presents a bracing and resigned account of the human condition by confronting the contradictions of living in a circumstance of perpetual hostility. Stylistic and thematic commonalities unify the volume, but each of its five sections hums with its own distinctive vibration, its own unabashedly pessimistic take on life in times and places shaped by conflict or, as Satterfield puts it, “apocalypse and empire.” http://shenandoahliterary.org/662/2017/04/26/apocalypse-mix-autumn-house-2017-by-jane-satterfield/—Philip Belcher, Shenandoah
In two of Jane Satterfield’s previous collections—Shepherdess with an Automatic (Washington Writers’ Publishing House, 2000) and Her Familiars (Elixir Press, 2013)—we find poems engaging a past that straddles two continents, including their history of war and their pastoral tradition. Similarly, her new collection, Apocalypse Mix, engages these topics and displays both her intelligence and her talent for yoking together seemingly disparate subjects. http://www.literarymatters.org/1-3-on-jane-satterfields-apocalypse-mix/—Heidi Czerwiec, Literary Matters
