1996 Governor General's Literary Award Nominee

Elsted seems to write with sound in his thought; the moods within these poems shift like key changes. Patterns of language and order – natural, intellectual, artistic, social – inform the whole work. A first book of great maturity and complexity.

Open this book at any page and you will see that its author's style was not formed in the "creative writing department" of any modern university. It was formed in apple orchards, back lanes, libraries, gardens, and in barns where live animals outnumber the tractor attachments. It was also formed on the concert stage, in the greenroom, in the jazz club, and in small community halls. — ROBERT BRINGHURST

Poetry, 96 pp, 6 x 9
ISBN 1-55039-064-3, paper, $12.95