"A superb first book of poems. The Afterlife of Objects is a book of interventions and reckonings. It is intensely personal, but in a way that widens the space for our own reveries, our own re-imaginings. It invites us to imagine ourselves back into the selves--the worlds--we inherited."
— Edward Hirsch, Washington Post Book World
“Chiasson is a poet of dazzling intellectual resources and unmatched sophistication. His temperament is rapacious, wily; his ear quick; his range of reference memorable, in part for the casual ease of its uses. . . . [He] is uniquely a poet for whom hiddenness is a profound psychic truth, a poet for whom guardedness corresponds to rather than precludes inwardness.”
— Threepenny Review