RaveLos Angeles Review of BooksKuipers’s poems contain a multitude of living things. \'Butterfly wing, shark’s tooth, quill,\' begins the poem \'Wife\',\' heralding a menagerie of other plants and animals that emerge ... In the midst of all of these buzzing, chirping, moving creatures and things, Kuipers crafts a meditation on the blurred boundaries between our bodies and the natural world, suggesting the ways in which bodies become earth, while earth forms a body of its own ... A large part of the collection is devoted to the unfulfilled desire for a second child, the yearning for a body to perform in certain ways ... In her consideration of what it means to raise one child while still desiring another child, Kuipers makes a stunning contribution to writing on motherhood ... All Its Charms is laced with both hopefulness and the prickling sting of thwarted desire ... All Its Charms reminds us of the beauty to be found in the ongoing act of waiting, where we find \'one thing beginning, another ending, / everything undone from within.\'
