In her eighth collection, Linda Pastan touches upon themes of family, childhood, time and loss, and the beauty of nature. Let the eye enlarge with all it beholds, she says in the opening poem; she becomes a seer, as the San Francisco Review of Books has said, "returning to the role of the poet as it served the human race for centuries: to fuel our thinking, show us our world in new ways, and to get us to feel more intensely."