"In Anastacia-Reneé’s hands, everything ‘above & below & in the middle’ is teeming with life—stretching beyond the margin—vintage and young at the same time. A gumbo both peaceful and pleasureful and impossibly wrought with the pain of context and intention. The poems of everything, everywhere, all at once. And ain’t that the Blackest, most alive thing to behold?" — Aurielle Marie, author of Gumbo Ya Ya
“The poetic verve that Anastacia-Reneé has brought to Side Notes from the Archivist is now brought beautifully and vividly to bear in Here in the (Middle) of Nowhere. This is conjure prose, passages and stories invoking ancestral voices, voices layered, down deep and up soaring, longing, loving, living and not living . . . This is bold invocation. You've been called.”
— Rick Simonson, Elliott Bay Book Company
“Anastacia-Reneé's extraordinary, intriguing, afrofuturistic, and mystical collection explores family, community, grief, and love.” — Booklist
“An exploration of the mystic within community, told through poetry and flash fiction… Best when read aloud, this narrative can be taken in small quantities as individual narrators tell their stories or taken as one whole, greater than the many stories contained within.” — Kirkus Reviews
Reneé’s poetry and flash fiction runs the whole emotional gamut. . . What comes from all of these stories, bound together by lucile and her sisters, is a sense of community saturated with tenderness, disappointment, pain and happiness. It’s marvellous." — Locus
