PositiveThe Line BreakThe marvelous appears frequently ... The book really takes off in section I’s third poem \'Everything Is Restored.\' The poem opens in a mundane environment of feeding a baby prunes, cleaning his mouth, and putting him to bed in his crib, and the marvelous enters as the child slips \'into the silvery minnows / of dreams, disorder of shine\' ... The child’s death is wrapped in the beauty of \'silvery minnows\' to which \'Harm will come.\' It ruptures classical concepts of beauty ... The Dream of Reason does end on hope, though. After a winter turning into spring that is reminiscent of \'The Waste Land,\' the speaker of the final poem, \'Easter,\' realizes that the first part of a human to rise from the winter thaw is not the \'brain\' or \'heart,\' but \'the image.\' It will most likely be a new marvelous image, as she begins another transformation, which I hope to read in her next collection of poems.
