"Sometimes you pick up a book and whole damn world opens up at your feet. ...Look, give Flet a try. It's like a bad dream you can put a bookmark in."
—The Agony Column

"If Flet is the dreamscape of 21st century America, its grimly beautiful portent is that the dream can only go deeper, crushing language and the individual under its pressure. There is no waking up."
—Nick Bredie, Tarpaulin Sky

"Featuring a future so bright it’s sunburnt, Joyelle McSweeney’s exploration of a dystopian land not too dissimilar from our own overwhelms without wearing out its welcome; its overwhelming is part of the point. If anything, the perfect description for the book would either be one of its chapter titles, 'An Optic Parable,' or, perhaps, Tron as written by Allen Ginsberg."
—Adam O. Davis, Perihelion

"Think Brave New World, 1984, or J. G. Ballard’s dark, prophetic sci-fi. Touted on its back cover as 'speculative fiction,' Joyelle McSweeney’s Flet could also be described as a poetic fever dream of the future."
—Amy Gerstler, Bookforum

"A left-wing, sci-fi cautionary allegory on enslavement and the media, its tut-tuts ringing depressingly hollow and familiar—a dangerous, mystical, exalted intonation, a pounding, unremitting, wordplay-driven paean to social and animalistic evolution, particle- and fracture-based existence, cartography, and authorship—a charmingly awkward hipster romance—a brutal psychological study set post-Armageddon: cruel, intimate, blurred in ultra-closeup. Flet shows what Joyelle McSweeney can do; in fact, it shows she can do everything, and in one fell swoop at that."
—Micaela Morrissette, Jacket Magazine

Joyelle McSweeney is the author of ten books of poetry, stories, novels, essays, translation and plays, including the poetry collections The Red Bird, The Commandrine and Other Poems, Percussion Grenade, Toxicon & Arachne, and Death Styles; the novel Flet, the verse play Dead Youth, or, the Leaks, which inaugurated the Scalapino Prize for Women Playwrights, and the essay collection The Necropastoral: Poetry, Media, Occults (a work of decadent ecopoetics). With Johannes Göransson, she co-edits the international press Action Books, publishing such authors as Raúl Zurita, Hiromi Ito, Josué Guébo and Kim Hyesoon, while supporting translators like Daniel Borzutzky, Don Mee Choi, Katerine Hedeen, Katrine Øgaard Jensen, Michelle Gil-Montero, Jeffrey Angles, and many others.