Honest and accessible. I enjoyed the focus on the 'ordinary' and the introspection. It's still not my favorite style and characteristically I most enjoyed a few lines that tie the 'political' to the very personal. ( )

I enjoyed many of the poems here as I read them, but few of them will end up staying with me. Most can be read once, and grasped, leaving little to think about for the reader seeking connection. There are a select few I'll come back to, but many of these felt like simple and brief anecdotes out of a life, and while they were beautifully written....they often didn't feel like poems so much as snippets of stories and images. For someone who is looking for short and elegant poems, that are very nearly too simple to come across, this is a good collection, or if you're drawn to poems about family relationships. For me, I'm afraid many of them just fell a bit flat, but those few I discovered to come back to did redeem the collection as being worth reading as a whole. ( )