"Again and again, what gives structure to Colarusso's many-tongued collection?which includes poems in Spanish and in French, reverent elegies and cartoonish dreams, not to mention the filthiest sex poems I bet I'll read all year?is prayer, the postures and registers of a poet speaking up or down to that titular 'pettyg-d.' Or else it's something like prayer, addressed horizontally, to those dearest to us: 'not to faint or fail / against muzzle flash or flames / to this I promise the promise / of you.'"?Christopher Spaide, Literary Hub

"The architecture of Hívado constructs and creates a text that is as much about space as it is about words. In his manipulation of the white space of the page as well as the line, Colarusso generates in the reader a response that is akin to the delight in finding one's way through a maze, or solving or putting a puzzle together. His bold use of the caesura yields a work that is literally cracked and, therefore, open to all the complicated and difficult energies that that word connotes. Hívado, whose cracks both let in and emit light, is a world unto itself?one in which play, the serious play at the centre of our existence, is at work."?M. NourbeSe Philip, reviewing a previous edition or volume

"Hívado's disrupted surfaces force their reader to reassess the sharp boundaries between sound and world, how these borders are rendered in consciousness, speech, and on the page."?Garin Cycholl, The Typescript, reviewing a previous edition or volume