""Love, an Index" is an utterly startling, muscular, heartbreaking book--poems pulled into existence by an event anyone who reads them wants only to reverse. Yet facing the irreversible fully, and still finding words, is what poems do. They demonstrate what it is to go on. I wish this book were not here to be read. But it is. And be read it will, with gratitude, stopped breath, amazement."
--Jane Hirshfield
"Is it Northrop Frye that defines the lyric poet as someone whispering to herself or to a lover, a ghost? These poems enact that sort of intimacy. Prayers, love letters, reveries-- they feel overheard in a way that makes this poet's innovations (as in the title poem or "Illuminating" or "Losing Language: A Phrasebook for Beginners" or "Love, n1.") feel natural and necessary. "Love, an Index" is a terrific litany of losses and retrievals. These poems recover, reclaim, remake the elegy form. They give it a soundtrack that is both blue and celebratory and careening at the slant of love. Rebecca Lindenberg's work stuns me."
--Terrance Hayes
"The poems in "Love, an Index," through a kaleidoscope of form and subtle pitch of voice, constitute a chorus. As in a symphony, there are strains and themes and variations, but ultimately there is unity, and here that unity is the sound of a deep soul--speaking, thinking, watching, remembering, but above all, singing. It is a song of plunging grief, a grief almost too low to bear, and the poems stay down, obediently, through the long dreaming night of loss. And then a sun comes up, and the whole book unfolds its wings and quietly rises. This is a dark and beautiful adventure, a terrible journey that strangely comes home to hope. I find this is a humbling and human book of poetry, a book to celebrate."
--Maurice Manning
"Robert Creeley has long since and helpfully avowed that a poem is the "activity" of the evidence. Now, with "Love, an Index," Rebecca Lindenberg provides an ancillary and most beautif

Rebecca Lindenberg is the grateful recipient of a 2012 MacDowell Arts Colony residency, a 2011 National Endowment for the Arts grant, and a 2009-2010 Provincetown Fine Arts Work Center fellowship. Her poetry, essays, and criticism appear in "The Believer," "POETRY," "Iowa Review," "Smartish Pace," "DIAGRAM," "Mid-American Review," "32 Poems," "Conjunctions," "Huffington Post," "Colorado Review," "Denver Quarterly," "Gulf Coast," and elsewhere. She holds a Ph.D. in Literature and Creative Writing from the University of Utah. She lives and writes in northern Utah.