"This strange model, the model of absence, stands behind Susan Gevirtz’s Herod’s City as metamodel, containing and generating a structure of strange models. It silently introduces and permits, 'like the night,' the many intersecting and merging arms or armatures ('the woman’s hundred arms'—Thrall, Gevirtz) that create the multiple rhythms, tones and trajectories of Gevirtz’s long poem." -- Norma Cole