 She employs mainly a formal meter that is heavily iambic.The book was positively reviewed by the critic Jascha Kessler who wrote

It is simply wonderful, I think, that Gloria Oden praises life and love in poems interwoven with an oppressive past, a past made the more oppressive by the burden of the double murder of the two women most import in her life ...I hope that her book, "Resurrections", may come to be better known, and not simply obscured and lost among the many books coming out of the small press publishing these days.