Keyhole in the Sky

Bert Almon is a professor of English at the University of Alberta and a
poet. He is the author of Calling Texas, Earth Prime, and Mind the Gap.

Joseph Csinger’s poems aim at communication, his preface tells us.
Their themes are certainly clear. In fact, they tend to be too obvious.
He deplores bad architecture and the destruction of trees; he worries
about bureaucracy and computers. His style relies on rather obvious
rhymes, and he sometimes capitalizes words for no good reason. He writes
in Hungarian as well as English, and possibly the stylistic problems
stem from a lack of familiarity with contemporary poetry in his second
language. At any rate, the book is not a success.