"Vibratory Milieu casts a spell of ecstatic, esoteric associations, forming unexpected neural pathways with a language that reminds us, 'the book is still a technology.' Carrie Hunter’s maximalist collage form masterfully weaves together language and living, acting as an antidote to the static-apocalypse all around us, reminding its reader, 'Reality is music.' This vibrant text shakes the body of the reader into a dance of memory, language, and unknowing sublimation."—Angel Dominguez
"'Dreaming prepares you for clairvoyance,' Hunter writes, which in turn prepares us for clairvoyance in the various realms of consciousness. We are continually made to know we’re in a poem, and that we’re likewise in a dream, awake. Hunter creates this lucid dreamstate wherein the poem is written and we dwell there, a place where she has dwelt, where she has made a dwelling place for us. Where consciousness is a multifaceted gem to behold, to hold up as we look at it, turning it around. Aphoristic in form, but cohesive in poetic narrative, because the voice drawing together the source fragments is so magnetic. Ripped intelligence is the phrase that comes to mind, ripped like the way muscles are ripped, or the way a text is ripped off. Diamond-like, dovetailed, and then suddenly, your aura drops around your knee."—Julian Talamantez Brolaski
"Like the eponymous teen heroine of strategic reversals, Carrie White, Carrie Hunter wields awesome telekinetic powers. Collaged quotations and phrases hover on the page, spotlighting the objects of our desire, fury and incredulity. We find ourselves somewhere within 'boundaryless metamorphosis’s apparent borders,' a tensile and refractive echo chamber of mega consequence. With heightened awareness of the stimulations and fabrications at hand, we become emboldened to bring down the house (capitalism, racial, gendered and ecological violence, etc.), an imbricated architecture, every part, every function accumulative and inextricably linked. In Vibratory Milieu, feminist provocation tackles the garish and overarching humiliating features of the omnipresent succubus that wields so many guises. 'If true consciousness lies below the conscious level,' ease into the hypnotic genius of Carrie Hunter’s representation of encounter."—Brenda Iijima
"As in her first collection, The Incompossible, Hunter effortlessly blends private dialogue with public testimony orchestrated in a variety of forms. Orphan Machines drones a bittersweet urban lyric, and by the end readers may also be asking themselves in public, 'Should / I fake normalcy or be real?'”—Nicholas Leaskou, Jacket2
"In Orphan Machines, Carrie Hunter stages a kind of cyborgian theater where ideology is brilliantly dismantled to unmask the real. With each startling construction, spaced across aerated pages or set in tight prose blocks, she discovers a form of liberation struggle."—Kit Robinson
"Revel in the freedom and inclusiveness of this book which is the opposite of a swell, but oceanic also."—Sarah Rosenthal
"Carrie Hunter uses language as her machine, deftly juxtaposing god and humanity, where we begin and where we end; the stops and starts. Her thoughtful wordplay is lush and at times over the top and whimsical, reminding one of a modern day Gertrude Stein, generating something entirely in and of its own world."—erica lewis
"Vibratory Milieu is a high-speed polyphonic lyric suite that somehow feels simultaneously an extension of her prior work, and yet, leagues ahead in terms of structure."—rob mclennan, rob mclennan's blog
