"This semi-epistolary form comes out of a long tradition made fresh in Sibum's hands by his contemporary diction and topics, and by the undeniable energy, intelligence, and frankness of the poems. The book is a meditative rant, full of fire and play yanked up short by dead-seriousness."—Western News "The fare Sibum provides covers the four spiritual food groups - humour, ... Read moreseriousness, discipline, humility - and is therefore wholesome and nutritive."—David Solway, Director's Cut "He creates a very original kind of dialectic between present and past, in which each illuminates and penetrates the other...there is in his approach none of that bright postmodern cynicism that makes everything grist to the solipsistic mill of the present."—Poetry Nation Show Less