The starting point for his poetic seems to be a precision in the employment of description, no doubt a natural byproduct of the acuity of his observation. As this collection progresses [ - ] Borkovec's poems tend to vary more in their form, with longer pieces becoming more frequent, and his utterance taking on more dependent clauses. There is a feeling of exploration in this, given that the poet does not become more lax in his line, nor less focused on the poignant minutiae. Instead, the poems are aided by the power of their structural variations, and within them we hear the thematic resonances of this expansion.A" Edinburgh Review 128