Poet Gary Snyder calls GRANDMOTHER SAYS "a poetic masterpiece... 'Grandmother' seems to be the playful spirit, life, energy of the organic world itself, an embodiment of multi-formed always-changing life; that lives whatever comes, with all the hard-won lessons and teachers...Watcher, trickster, analyst; wild-world-housekeeper... (she) plays being different beings, can be invisible, likes sex, goes beyond death...in these quick sharp poems."