"[...] a word-smithy that is now owned by an incorruptible woman of letters. Her words are in open view and in plain hearing for the eyes and ears of people who value every single tongue but not the forked one." -Christopher Ricks, Dead Ground 2018-1918 "I can certainly attest [...] now, after being in Bugan's world of `frail syllables', that such an equilibrium between history and art is not only possible, but is often the only way to assuage pain, to release the caged birds, to free oneself from the shackles of grief." -Simon Gatev, Dundee University Review of the Arts "Carmen Bugan has the ability to transform deeply personal experiences into poetic language without losing the radiant particulars from which they sprang." -Frank Beck, The Manhattan Review