McLane 82-3: "Moore shows the beauty and the poverty of information. Her poems are informed, formed by that which is in them. In Moore a fact becomes a 'luminous detail' (a la Pound) but also retains some of the aura of its discursive origin: as a scientific fact, a historical fact, a physiological fact, a geological fact, a journalistic fact--data for stitching, or (to shift metaphors) for inlaying into the irregular yet measured mosaic of the poem."