George Wallace reviewd Vocabulary Of Silence for BigCityLit. He said of it, Vocabulary of Silence is a collection to savor and experience fully, a collection to educate ourselves with. It is a collection to read during a quiet time of day, when its full voice can reach to our hearts, as Veronica Golos does so beautifully, and ask the fundamental question stated so plainly in the title poem: "What makes us? I want it to be love."