 Oden's fourth book "Appearances", published in 2004 at the age of 81, is by far her most ambitious work both in length (numbering almost 90 poems and over 200 pages) and in content.Doing away with much of her more formal or metered style of the past these poems vary in form and length, employing a great deal of free verse.While the majority of the poems are intensely personal (for which she expresses unease