"Carmen Giménez Smith's Goodbye, Flicker takes on poetry, family, myth, fairy tale, memory, love, history, and our plain ordinary human stories. Magic and invention are taken for granted. Cómo se dice is what all poems say. Giménez Smith happens to say so with deliverance and desire that can break into anyone's heart." Dara Wier, author of Selected Poems and Reverse Rapture

"Open Goodbye, Flicker and enter the world of Owl Girl, Natasha, the Sliver Poet, 'the most prolific girl in school,' a girl 'poor / lazy / clever / long and golden,' facing always the eternal choice: 'boy or liberty.' It's as if Giménez Smith threw a stone called 'girl' into the pond of psyche—a psyche both personal and collective—and these are the ripples. The magic needle becomes the tool to 'look store-bought,' the golden key the means to wait on 'jordaches and polos, / husband and coin.' The archetypal and the daily—its engine of class, race and gender—come fully forward in this terrific book, where lyric and narrative modes play, where 'Tale is a world / of condition,' where every She seeks to change her story." Dana Levin, author of In the Surgical Theater and Sky Burial

"Giménez Smith brings poetic impulse to every syllable of her work." Literary Mama