This is a book I've reread many times. There are half a dozen poems in here that are great, and keep pulling me back. The very first and very last ones are among the finest. But I think the entire middle section is weak -- the author is too muh in control of the poems, and makes them tell the message she has in mind. A few others suffer from this and it makes them predictable, sentimental. Still, for the excellent poems this volume does contain, I'll come back and reread it again I'm sure. ( )