"B. Sonenreich's poetry collection You're Only Crazy If You Answer pulsates with heartbreak and wisdom. You'll rip through it, again and again." - Angie Martoccio
Associate Managing Editor, Rolling Stone
"You’re Only Crazy if You Answer is a hauntingly visceral and raw collection of poems that encapsulate the human experience of longing of grief of sobriety. Sonenreich was able to capture a certain quiet and nuanced vulnerability in so few words but that say so much about how we experience the world and our relationships. The poems moved from the pages of this book and stayed with me long after reading." — Crystal Villarreal, Assistant Op-Ed Editor of Los Angeles Times
"The poems in You’re Only Crazy If You Answer have all the incandescence of night about them: nights of survival, nights of loss, nights of intimacy and grief. In its haunted and measured way, Sonenreich’s voice breaks into a kind of devotional flight, to which the reader will return again and again, as one having come to terms with Rilke’s great pronouncement: you must change your life. A beautiful debut." — lydia falls, Author of BENEATH THE HEAVY
"Sonenreich’s poems grapple with the nuanced feelings of loneliness. Over the course of You’re Only Crazy If You Answer, the truth slips in like a confession or shared revelation— that loneliness is often self-inflicted, arising from expectation, reverie, or a hatred with impermanence. And when looking into a mirror or shards of a mirror with Sonenreich, the metaphors of personal responsibility for the regrets of intimacy lost are palpable and relatable." — A.C. Dobell, Author of "5,000 Ads a Day"
