It is surprising, in view of much current verse, how little Miss Davidman's explicit political creed interferes with the imaginative dimensions of her work.  A few of the verses are strained and self-conscious, but a poetic integrity governs most of them.

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Miss Davidman's greatest facility is in disciplined verse--occasionally marred by false rhymes--but it may be that she promises most in the freer forms which, harsh and strained though they sometimes seem, are effectively harmonized with the material.  Stricter craftsmanship, especially in the longer verse, and a more frugal selection would have done greater justice to the superior poems of this book, which is distinguished, on the whole, for its plasticity of technique, clarity of image, affirmative strength and flexibility of thought.