"This work transforms the mythic into the personal, the personal into the mythic." -- Poetry Society of America

"No one has written poems of the feminine experience that are less strident or more profoundly political." -- Rodney Jones

"Simply told and resonant without making an explicit feminist statement, these poems describe individual women with compassion and delicacy." -- Publisher's Weekly

"If the history of a man's world has ...shouldered aside the emotional history of a women's world, here is a poet who can help us imagine what we have missed." -- William Matthews