 Recogntion
Joseph Brodsky praised Jacobsen's poetry for its "reserve, stoic timbre, and its high precision".She was known for "elegant, concise phrasing on a wide range of topics and in varied forms" in which she "plumbed questions of identity, interrelatedness and isolation".Julie Miller commented that Jacobsen's poetry "rejoices in words for their own sake, not for the sake of the objects or ideas to which they refer.