“Orsini has chosen an apt title for her books,”observes Robert Phillips in his foreword to the book, “because the world of her imagination contains much imperfection—imperfect family life,…imperfect marriages, imperfect health.” As a poet, Orsini is unsentimental and precise. As an illustrator she is both whimsical and ironic. In both media, she is unflinching in her vision of the redemptive powers of art.