"The poet laureate of the Precariat" --Barbara Ehrenreich "Alissa Quart's poems are nimble and seething, capturing our baroquely scurrilous world. She writes across the holes of what's been lost, hopeless and strangely optimistic at once." --Eileen Myles "Quart's poems have impeccable technique and pleasure-giving verve. A book of grit, danger, and paradoxical elegance." --Wayne Koestenbaum "Thoughts and Prayers is a beautiful, necessary book." --Karen E. Bender "With hilarious wit and trenchant lyricism, Quart plumbs everyday experiences and late capitalism." --Celina Su PRAISE FOR QUART'S POETRY: "Dense, aphoristic, playful.

" --The New Yorker "A keen observer of our culture and a believer in the power of poetry to cut to the heart of issues around us: money, class, gender and the environment." --NPR "Quart turns the insecure conditions that shape our lives today into beautiful jagged verse: the poetry of careers replaced by gigs, of workplaces transformed into WeWork, of a country with no promise, ever, of simple safety." --Barbara Ehrenreich "Every movement, from splicing, to condensation to litany, has an unprecedented intensity, informative politics, surprise and audacious flair." --Wayne Koestenbaum "[Quart] has perfect pitch." --The Philadelphia Inquirer "[Her poems] reveal her keen sociological eye and serve as remarkably apt cultural critiques." --Publishers Weekly "Quart's laser-sharp phrases.have a way of sticking around in your head long after you turn the final page." --Alternet "The irony of our predicament .

is delightfully disclosed not only in the speaker's waggish yet tempered tone, but also in the sheer refinement of [her] free verse." --The Boston Review.