Wading the Trout River

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

Wading the Trout River is a mature and intelligent collection of lyric
poems mostly dedicated to love and to an examination of gender roles. It
celebrates heterosexual romance and sensuality without being
heterosexist. The poems are also not in any way narrowly personal. They
spread their wings to draw on religion (“The Tree of Knowledge” and
“The Tree of Life”), pop psychology (“Venus Envy”), and the
minutiae of everyday life (“Letters of the Alphabet”). This is a
wonderful, touching, insightful book.