"This collection of poems is a strong second for Richardson. His themes are work, separation, new love, new life, family, remembrances, history, and fancy... Richardson manages—and herein lies his strenth—effortlessly to seam concrete description of everyday experiences with the vivid interior life that inevitably accompanies them...Richardson's trademark perceptivity and hi-fi vocabulary are at their peak here." —Books in Canada
"Perhaps [Peter Richardson’s] job [as an airport cargo handler] shifting objects around has encouraged his use of vivid verbs: they jostle through the collection... Most of Richardson’s book carries valuable cargo."
—Montreal Review of Books
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