Linda Pastan's Aspects of Eve has dream images, essencing images, house and family and garden imagery, Old Testament imagery, classical imagery, usually in short narratives about coming to terms with her experience. The poems are sure of touch, rightly distanced. The terms are not small terms; she says important, clear words about some important subjects: death, endurance, kindness. Her poems go unexpected ways through several kinds of imagery and saying, and they work out as wholes, naturally, uncontrivedly. "David" and "Algera" are, in my judgment, the two best poems in the book; but my favorite is "Folk Tale." It's nice, among all the current goings-on, to have a poem for parents. (p. 539)