"M. Frost brings to poetry the unique perspective of a veterinary doctor who has worked with farm animals as well as cats and dogs.  Her down-to-earth knowledge of how bodies work or don’t work, and her experience as a healer, gives her poetry a visceral freshness.  While some poets write about life-and-death dramas played out in mental hospitals or on battlefields, Frost confronts them in cow barns and vet clinics.  This chapbook combines the language and vision of a poet with the scientific rigor of a doctor.  The combination often produces startling surprises, such as when a Dadaist prints words on cows and records what the cows “write” in a field.  According to Frost, the Dadaist “collected enough organic lines / to fill four books and a NY show.”  Her own organic lines deserve the same attention."
 Henry Hart
Mildred & J.B. Hickman Professor of Humanities
The College of William & Mary
"What M. Frost knows about cows, literally from the inside, delivers a startling, exhilarating expansion of our sense of the universe.  And that’s just the beginning of what these supple poems have to offer. Here is a language informed by science and an imagination that sees beyond the human, bringing images of birth, blood, light that will change how we know these primal matters."
Betsy Davids
California College of the Arts
"The patient bovines of Cow Poetry have much to teach us about being human. Through the veterinarian poet’s careful and unflinching observation they show us that the compassionate skilled hand can bring healing or necessary death. These moving but never sentimental poems turn clinical language lyric, reveal its gorgeous sound—the music in erythroblast and eructation, cannula and rumenostomy. As topical as Mad Cow  Disease and Anthrax, M. Frost makes science sing, from microbes and red blood cell membranes to graffiti on the moon."
 Kelley Jean White, M.D.
Schuylkill Valley Journal of the Arts
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