Books Received

242 LETTERS IN CANADA 1999 wrestling elephant, the cannibalistic gypsies or the magic cat that Jack meets: I haven't rim into the same crowd as Jack, but the crowd I did meet has been composed of poets just as diverse, as dangerous, as dazzling. What a privilege to have had such a view of this country's poetry, and how select and arbitrary I've had to be in recounting what I've read. In most folk tales there's more than one path through the dark woods, but only one right one. Not so here; how differently I could have charted my way through all these pages. Had I shipped to a different fellow reader, I might well have followed different poets. But I'll ship to Jack just a little bit longer, and let the brilliant excess, the sheer delight of Sheila's Brush take me home: 'Well, come 011 home and meet the nIudder,' says Jack. And he takes the Princess by the hand, takes the big bag ofmoney and heads home. Overfield, down dale, lip hill, over meadow, under overpass, over Imderpass, bottom Iille, ball park figure, rattle me cage, let's do IUHch, check the mail, flP the garden path, and in through the kitchen door. This review was read towards and/or written: in St John's, Upper Amherst Cove, Patrick's Cove, and Northern Bay, Newfoundland; on the Joseph and Clara Smallwood Marine Atlantic Ferry running between Argentia, Newfoundland and North Sydney, Nova Scotia; in Kingston, and at Thirteen Island Lake, Ontario; in Edmonton, on farms near Millet and Winfield, Alberta; and at thirty-thousand feet between Calgary and Ottawa. Thanks to ChrisJennings for his looming patience; Agnes Walsh for hereyes and her ears; Stan and Rachel Dragland for just about everything; the whales for their show off the side of the ferry. BOOKS RECEIVED Allen, Lillian. Psychic Unrest. Insomniac. 102. $12.99 Babstock, Ken. Meal1. Anansi. 84· $19·95 Barlow, John. ASHINEoVSUN. Exile. 112. $17·95 Barwin, Gary. Outside tile Hat. Coach House. 1998. 120. $19.95 bissett, bill. scars on tlz seehors. Talon Books. 160. $15.95 Bluger, Marianne. Gusts. Penumbra. 1998. 112, $14-95 Bociurkiw, Marusya. Halfway to the East. Lazara. 90. $1+95 Bolster, Stephanie. Two Bowls ofMilk. McClelland and Stewart. 82. $14.99 Bowering, Marilyn. Human Bodies: New and Collected Poems. 1987- 1999. Beach Holme. 276. $16.95 Bra~er, Shannon. Suitcases and Other Poems. Exile. 88. $16.95 Bruck, Julie. The End ofTravel. Brick. 72. $14.00 Bulmer, April. Him. Black Moss. 66. $16.95 Cain, Stephen. Dyslexicoll. Coach House. 172. $22.50 POETRY 243 Calder, John. What's Wrollg? What's Right? Mosaic. 68. $15.00 Cameron, Melanie. Holdillg the Dark. Muses' Company. 112. $12.95 Chamberlain, Terry. The ABCs ofFarming. Thistledown. 188. $14.95 Chambers, Chris. Lake Where No One Swims. Pedlar. 96. $18.50 Chao, Lien. Maples alld the Stream: A Narrative Poem. TSAR. 126. $14.95 Chubbs, Boyd Warren. TIle Birth and Bun'al Grounds. Newfoundland Poetry Series. Breakwater. 64· $14·95 Clark, John Livingstone. Stream ,,"der Flight. Thistledown. 94· $14.95 Clarke, George Elliot. Beatrice ChanCl). Polestar. 160. $16.95 Clarke, James. Tile Ancient Pedigrees of Plums. Exile. 120. $17.95 Colalillo-Katz, Isabella. Tastillg Fire. Guemica. 86. $]2.00 Compton, Wayde. 49th Parallel Psalm. Advance/ Arsenal Pulp. 176. $15.95 Cookshaw, Marlene. Double Somersaults. Brick. 92. $14.00 Corkett, Anne. SummertoWll. St Thomas Poetry Series. 48. $9.50 Cran, Brad, editor. Hammer & Tongs: A Smoking Lung Anthology. Smoking Lung. 152. $14·95 Crozier, Lorna. What the Livillg WOII't Let Go. McClelland and Stewart. 96. $14.99 Crusz, Rienzi. , Lord of the MOllntain: The Sardiel Poems. TSAR. 106. $13.95 Deen, Faizal. Lalld witliollt Chocolate. Wolsak and Wynn. 68. $14.00 Dempster, Barry. Fire and Brimstone. Empyreal. 1997.78. $12.00 Donaldson, Jeffery. Waterglass. Hugh MacLennan Poetry Series. McGill-Queen's Univeristy Press. 78. $16.95 Donlan, John. Greell Mall. Ronsdale. 88. $13.95 Doucet, Clive. Lookillgfor Hellry. Thistledown. 156. $15.95 Downie, Glen. Wishbone Dance: New and Selected Medical Poems. Wolsak and Wynn. 94· $14.00 Dwyer, Deirdre. Tile Breatil Tilat Lightells tile Body. Porcepic/Beach Holme. 96. $12.95...