It's always difficult to rate poetry and/or short story collections, since the individual poems and/or short stories can potentially range from 1 star to 5 stars. But just about every piece in Nesting Beasts gets at least 3.5 stars from me, and more than half really resonated with me, so overall 4.5 stars seems fair — possibly even a bit under. (I don't think I've tabbed so many pages since reading Hamlet in high school English.)

[Better review to come.]