milk and honey comes from Exodus 33:3, God promises in the excerpt to bring the Israelites to "a land flowing with milk and honey." The land of milk and honey is a place of beauty, life, and a hopeful outlook on the future, a metaphor for the Promised Land. Most of the poems in the book are written in first person from a woman who was sexually abused as a child and an adult. The abuse indefinitely alters the way she thinks of the world which affects her relationship with her father as well as with men in general.
