As Though the Gods Love Us

Don Precosky teaches English at the College of New Caledonia. He is the
co-editor of It’s Still Winter, an online journal of contemporary
Canadian poetry and poetics, and Four Realities: Poets of Northern B.C.

In these poems, you can hear the voice of a humble yet wise individual.
They present the sensibility of one man who has been many places:
Vancouver, Newfoundland, Bali, and Mexico, among others. The poems are
at times narrative/dramatic, and at other times conversational and
avuncular. There is something of Wordsworth’s “Prelude” in the
book—an older poet looking back at the road that has brought him to
where he is—and something of Roman or Augustan verse epistles. There
is also an unfortunate tendency for chattiness, which makes some of the
poems prosaic. Yet, on the whole, the book is wise and full of advice
well worth heeding.