"R.P. LaRose's fierce and fiercely beautiful sonnets whirl like cyclones of dream and memory, converging on questions of Indigenous land stewardship, romantic heartbreak, family history, and Métis identity. LaRose's clear-eyed, anticolonial sequence not only challenges the 'flags and flagellations / of yet another not-empire / that calls itself a republic,' but also tenderly attends to moments of metaphysical and spiritual intensity." — Michael Prior

"Wolf Sonnets masterfully reinvents the idiom through alliance not with the canon, but nature: 'I side with the wolves.' Defying colonialism's logic with a shapeshifting 'I' that 'represent(s) no one' and also the Métis Nation, 'a self/unrelated to all the rest, alone,' LaRose animates these histories by interrogating the sonnet form, in a brave, unforgettable work of linguistic reclamation." — Virginia Konchan

"R. P. LaRose has made an old European poetic form new and vigorous again. This is a poet who 'fell asleep among shadows / and woke among wolves.'" — Bert Almon