“The elegiac is the core energy of every essential lyric and Rhea Tregebov is a powerful tear-catcher in Talking to Strangers. A small book of pained songs, this text is the perfect accompaniment to weariness, sighs, to a grief of centuries or hours.” -Catherine Owen, Marrow Reviews

“Rhea Tregebov sculpts sound in her latest collection of poetry…What is strange becomes familiar, and what is familiar becomes strange through slight shifts in syntax, mood, and shape. So many of these poems work through loss, and residual memory restores some meaning to those losses. -Michael Greenstein, British Columbia Review