Travels on a Listening Dark

Bert Almon is a professor of English at the University of Alberta and
author of Calling Texas.

Peter Cahoon is a sculptor and painter. He has not learned the art of
poetry. This self-published book contains poems without clear themes,
and no sense of the poetic line. He seems to be free associating without
any definite point of departure, and the poems don’t arrive anywhere.
The images are occasionally vivid, but they are not part of coherent
poetic wholes. Once in a while an epigrammatic phrase surfaces (“An
hour / Forgets nothing / A year remembers”) but the phrase has no
context to give it life. Poetry requires more dedication to craft than
this book manifests.