In the Kosher Chow Mein Restaurant

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

These poems are complex, metaphorical, and highly allusive. In them I
hear a voice that is bardic and earnest, and familiar with the ways of
the world. And yet something about them seems out of sorts. They sound
like echoes of a previous era, harking back to the early days of
modernism, around the time of World War II. The following passage is
typical of their flow and texture: “Clouds were coiffured crazily atop
/ each other. Lightning toppled tiaras down” (“Letters read in a
storm”). These lines sound as though they would have been more at home
in the era of Preview and First Statement than in these ironic,
deconstructed times.