Analysis

The poems capture the speaker's experiences undergoing an extended period of psychoanalysis. It's an old story, an account of a journey back in both time and space in order to make possible a fuller acceptance, and the terrors and joys that emerge demand our response. What startles with newness: the telling of this tale in a poetic sequence with its complex reverberations of tone, mood, and image that reflect the movements of a mind in agony that slowly comes to fold over upon itself, creating the rich interiority that is the seedbed of generation itself.