Sleepwalking Among the Camels: New and Selected Poems

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

Tom Konyves has real talent, and he deploys it in some unusual ways.
Fascinated with Alfred Jarry’s eccentric ideas about paraphysics, a
“science of imaginary solutions” (a pseudo-science, in fact), he
writes witty poems impelled by surrealist absurdity. The shorter poems
in this book are generally the best ones, the longer works (especially
those in the section titled Performance Poems) being too solemn in their
absurdities. His later poems are less theoretical and more spontaneous,
discovering absurdity in experience rather than contriving it in the
imagination. It will be interesting to see where his talents can take
him.