PositiveEclecticaJenny George is ... more distant than is common in the craft. Emotions are there. it is just that they are kept carefully on the far side of her poems ... Her images, like \'Chime of spoon in sink,\' are precise in their materiality, unadorned. They are more immediate than a record. They unload themselves in carefully measured syllables ... For all the asceticism, however, these poems have a surprising number of images, each patiently unfolded to reveal a fragile surprise ... All of this is not to say that The Dream of Reason is without its flaws ... There is no ferocious bad girl humor. Not the slightest hint of a glint in the eye. Nor is there the implication of courage except for the courage to simply be there, in the moment, receptacle with five senses.
