Robert Pack's Keeping Watch … has the quiet wisdom, sanity and good workmanship we rightly expect from him. Maxims in Limbo compares poorly to the Stevens of Like Decorations, which it invokes, but every other poem in the book is movingly closer to home. Nothing but Light, Pack's previous book, was better, but even this latest volume continues to show Pack's strength as an almost unique celebrant of married love and fatherhood, subjects by no means favorable to the poems of our climate. (p. 23)