"Kate Greenstreet’s The End of Something is a mesmerizing rumination on flux and trust, wisdom and the divided self." Mary Jo Bang Vallum: Contemporary Poetry "2017: Year in Review"
"The allure of Greenstreet’s work from book to book and video to video is her uncanny power to bring the mystery of the everyday into clear focus." Christopher Nelson Under a Warm Green Linden
"Some time ago I found myself regularly walking by a campus bulletin board on which someone had posted a Family Circus parody: little Billy looks into his mother’s open mouth and sees. . . space, stars, galaxies, the universe. Reading Kate Greenstreet is a little like that. The surface is plain, unshowy, stripped down. The cumulative effect is stunning." Judith Roitman Galatea Resurrects 2018
"The End of Something is, like the books that came before it in her quartet. . . a detective novel. Here, though, the private eye is also the client. And the client is also the missing person." Kylan Rice The Carolina Quarterly
"The poems invite intimacy by questioning themselves. . . This wondering about the present suggests that what we share most, when we share a secret, may be our time together." Zach Savich Kenyon Review
"Like walking slowly through a single-artist exhibition, the thought-altering power of this poet’s vision needs time to ripen in the reader’s mind. . . This is a book that builds deliberately, intuition by intuition, to its hypnotic and mysterious end." Erica Goss Sticks & Stones
"Greenstreet has an uncanny ability to get to the heart of a characterization with a few words. . . her work is both precise and haunting." Laura Carter Fanzine
"What a marvelous book. . . writ in a language we know but have never used this way." Todd Walton Under the Table
"Giorgio Agamben [in The Fire and the Tale] explores the internal resistance that he says characterizes art works. In The End of Something by Kate Greenstreet, every line/sentence is both complete and incomplete. I have never read anything quite like it. It’s a good example of the kind of resistance Agamben was talking about." Rae Armantrout The Paris Review "Our Contributor's Favorite Books of 2017"
"What's striking here is the presentation of the speaker as outsider, othered within the terrain of her own psyche. . . Subtly and skillfully, she calls our attention to the narrative's elisions as a dismantling and a source of possibility, an invitation to the reader to build what has been taken down. " Kristina Marie Darling American Book Review
"Greenstreet passes back and forth through the holes in experience with a quiet, preternatural assurance, leading the reader until disorientation becomes illuminated with pleasure." Elizabeth Robinson Tupelo Quarterly
"There is something remarkable in the collage effect of Greenstreet’s meditative bursts and matter of fact lyrics, one that concurrently holds a series of incredibly precise specificity and floating generalizations, with neither direction contradicting the other." rob mclennan's blog
"The poems adjust themselves so that what is questioned can be gleaned in scraps; that which dangles in a room long after we've left it; the sound of the unsaid; the weight of the unheard. . ." Tyler Flynn Dorholt 4 Square Review
"I believe Greenstreet’s poems to be exactly what is often said about successful poems: that they are the distillations of entire worlds which become available in their entirety again to discerning (empathetic) readers." Eileen Tabios Galatea Resurrects 2017
"It’s a book that asks the reader to trust it, but as in all of her work, Greenstreet creates a strong sense of trust from the very beginning." Adam Clay Kenyon Review "Holiday Reading Recommendations"