Alice Jones, poet, psychiatrist, and affiliate member of the San Francisco Psychoanalytic Institute, has written a first book of poems that will interest not only the general reader but may have a special appeal for the psychoanalyst as well. The book, dealing, among other things, with death and development and how they influence each other, focuses not only on mourning and its sublimatory expression in the creative act, but more concretely, for instance, on how the cadaver and its dissection in medical school can become “content” for poetic “working through” if the mind does not close