“Like her subject and muse, Laura Ann Reed’s Homage to Kafka contains anxieties, prophecies, and “contagious organisms.” The poems understand the contradictions inside Kafka as a writer and person that made it possible for him to locate the contradictions of the world around him. Reed’s poems offer an unsettling insistence that readers face reality without blinking and without judgment. The poems get into Kafka’s atmosphere as well as the floors of his interior with fresh language and surprising insights.”
Sean Singer, author of Today in the Taxi