Her 1st few books were not egregiously bad. Then, in the wake of the 1970s raft of Confessionalism, LC fused that with black & feminist clichés to produce poems which- in W.S. Merwin fashion, lacked punctuation & any sense of structural integrity within the poem itself. That is to say her free verse ‘form’ became willy-nilly. The titular poem is a prime example of this, what with its pointless spaces in-line. Now, LC & her supporters would argue that these are caesurae- a time-honored poetic tradition going back to Skaldic verse. That is the reason for the pauses in the poem are due to the description of incest that the poem details. Unfortunately the poem is so larded with clichés, & the narrative so dull that no reader cares about the female character. There is not even melodrama.