“Part I is stark and arresting. Few poets could write it today. He really liked ‘The Jew’ and ‘Tsunami’ but hates to single out poems at random like this since the collection is a whole and not merely an assembly of parts.
“Part II is a thoughtful and a pensive squence. ‘Shops on Ben Yehuda’ is oustanding. ‘Flickers in the Dark’ likewise. It is hard not to admire the resolve of the author to find positive points to make about harsh fate and destructive destiny.
“Part III at first seems lacking in colour and pensiveness but in many ways it is the sequence with the most mature works, balancing the atrocities and idiocies of history with the desire to make the most of the world and its inhabitants. ‘Husband’ is a humdinger like many other poems here. DR finds the woman in the poetry in Part III. Is she really “moon woman” or is she in effect all women?
“Infected with the gentle ironies of LN’s poetry, (one) is ‘taken’ with all three parts of the collection which is greater than the sum of these parts in presenting a fully dimensional portrait of a modern woman of the world who yearns for affection and love in a world which outwardly at least values these very little.”