Thrum

Don Precosky teaches English at the College of New Caledonia and is the
co-editor of Four Realities: Poets of Northern B.C.

Thrum’s front cover shows a face rendered in a cubist fashion with
multiple facets, which inevitably have a distorting effect. There is
something of this in Leef Evans’s poetry.

Evans has the energy of a nuclear device. Harnessed, it could be used
for peaceful purposes. Right now it’s kind of exploding all over the
place: a vigorous display of hyperactive energy. His poems exhibit an
excellent vocabulary, wise integration of a whole variety of influences
both ancient and modern, and a quirky way of looking at things. All
marvelous strengths. Perhaps he has found his technique, but not yet his
subject.

Despite this diffuseness, Thrum is a book well worth reading; it marks
the debut of a writer who bears watching because he has great promise.