Elizabeth Willis's poetry has been widely praised. Jacket Magazine reported that "Meteoric Flowers" "offers the reader a strange and at times almost overwhelmingly pleasurable world." Poet Ron Silliman wrote that the collection "is filled with brief, well-balanced, brilliantly written prose poems." Susan Howe wrote, "Elizabeth Willis is an exceptional poet, one of the most outstanding of her generation, and "Meteoric Flowers" is her most compelling collection to date." Rosmarie Waldrop said that the collection "is a remarkable investigation of our experience and language."