The most spectacular aspect of the poems in Conceptions is their ripe and warm sensuality. Jane Dick writes of the body, not symbolically, but as flesh and need, speaking simply of desire in a clear, uncluttered voice .. Conceptions is bursting with a female sensuality that stresses the poet's pleasure in her womanliness and demonstrates the power of female eroticism, a theme too often ignored in women's poetry. {Herizons}