Says judge Lee Ann Roripaugh, "Carolyn Guinzio is a poet of exceptional artistry and originality, and A Vertigo Book is a stunningly beautiful book of piercing luminosity." Geffrey Davis adds "Guinzio renders the interior in ways that seek connection across the sundry textures that form our sense of a life, proving poetry’s ability to advance not an idea about intimacy but the thing itself. Guinzio calla readers to attune their own looking and listening for new beliefs in contact."