“Barone has slalomed over the waves of both confessional and language school poetry. Like the ‘one true horse’ in one of her poems, by forgetting the race she has found her own inimitable dance, and it is not to be missed.”

“In poem after poem, she attends to the voices of the old, to the inner voices that speak of our fragility, and records, in the phrase from Irish legend, “the music of what happens.”

“Her poems describe borders – between the visual and the visionary, the ordinary and the ineffable.”

“Like the mighty Mississippi, time flows like an arrow, all too fast from birth to death, but her poet’s eye captures these moments again and again – sorrow and joy  – more like a circle.”

“Her poems often weave together the unlikely, making connections which help us see with new eyes the old stories.”