"The book begins with early memories of raging against a system of belief and custom that was supposed to be unquestionable. The poems are written in an unassuming lower case, in punctuationless, out of breath tirades, the run-on flow of someone flooded with words. Taboo words, the necessity to speak the unspeakable, to shout the unthinkable."
- Poetry Canada Chronicle

"There are surrealistic and visionary moments in these poems. Predominantly, however, they are down-to-earth, rooted in a woman's body and a prairie landscape."
- John Oughton, Books in Canada

"Questions i asked my mother is an important first book....Brandt deserves a wide audience"
- Prairie Fire Review of Books

Secrets "spill onto the page in an irresistible torrent of detail, leading to an ever expanding inner world of associations. Brandt's writing is a flowing stream of consciousness, drawing its power from the effects of accumulation and resonance."
- Journal of Canadian Poetry

"This is finely crafted rage."
- Border Crossings