Iridium

Beautifully shaped and with language full of sensuous intimations, here is the latest volume of poems by Steve Luxton - from the tensile short lyrics of "Hermit Crab Song" to the loosely sashaying rhythms of "Morning After: At the Dacha". Luxton's sustained vision compels and fascinates. As G V Downes comments in "Canadian Literature", Luxton is both original and aware, a poet "who sees with precision" the Canadian landscape. Like the being in the title poem "Iridium", the reader is urged for a moment to relinquish the grotesque world of appearances to find shapes that sound, touch, and endure.