"Rosanna Warren's Hindsight is a work of poly-perspective wonder. The rare prismatic vividness of her language brings to life, in an increasingly turbulent world, the strange beauty of childhood and aging, renewal and expiration, melancholy, grief and outrage. There is an exacting intimacy to her way of examining these tremors, a felt realism that refuses to fall into despair and cynicism; her lyric protest does not take an ironic distance or, worse, relies on virtuosic rhetoric to question intensely "things done from those undone." Through their compact image and taut music and their rich line-indepthness, these poems craft a different kind of dissent, that of humility, patience, penitence, and, above all, love. Hindsight amounts to an "an enormous fugue," a secular interlocking of Matins and Compline that compel many returns, poems that remain in the body and help sing against the overlap of personal and civic crises.".