"The Bottom," writes Peter Balakian, "is an unrelenting poem of hypnotic chants, leaps, and catalogs through which Betsy Andrews dives into the vast ocean of the damaged and endangered planet. As she navigates the wreckage and erosion, she also affirms the force of love. This is an urgent lyric vision of our time." Carolyn Forch calls it "a water-poet's inventory, cry, and lamentation in one book-length tsunami of plangent musical phrases...