...we should read this volume as the revelation of the consciousness of awoman and a poet trying to deal with a past to change the future of it. Thepoem Fist di... » 

...we should read this volume as the revelation of the consciousness of awoman and a poet trying to deal with a past to change the future of it. Thepoem Fist directly addresses this idea as the speaker imagines the fist of achild cupped in two adult hands and pried open finger by finger to releasepent up anger. The hand then becomes a poem presented to us spread wide openin a precisegesture of giving or welcome its fate clear and empty like thesky like the blue blue sky above the Square. «