A thorough delight. The recording consciousness is steady. The candor and thoughtfulness of the poems are winning. A group of mother-daughter poems rivals those of Anne Sexton and Maxine Kumin. While Ostriker frequently pauses to admire the view afforded us by this wounded world that is our bride, the tone of her poetry is increasingly urgent and insistent.
Important work remains to be done, and there is little time to accomplish it.
Hume George, Women's Studies.