"Six Girls without Pants confronts the terror of sexuality, its economies of accident and control, vulnerability and power. Paisley Rekdal's edgy, intelligent poems muse upon our hapless wedding with the world, and in doing so, participate in the uncanny beauty of the 'strange conjunctions, uneasy / alliances' that are their subject. The intoxications of art, the heady pleasures of science, and the ecstasies of religion are part of this linguistic world that shimmers with tactile and cerebral bliss, 'part animal, part elegance.'" Alice Fulton
ForeWord Magazine Book of the Year Award (Poetry) Finalist
Asian American Literary Award, Poetry Category Finalist