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"Sibum's poems are not everyone's cup of tea instead of breathing air they inhale the exhaust of apocalyptic times." Books in Canada "The language, the focus on American politics and warfare, the contrarian dialogue with friends gives way, just often enough, to rage at how the century began." Gord Sellar "Sibum has a natural gift of meditative narrative, a quite powerful instinctive sense of appropriate form, and a wonderful and diverse eloquence in the old sense of that word." Michael Schmidt "Sibum's poems are not everyone's cup of tea ... instead of breathing air they inhale the exhaust of apocalyptic times."-Books in Canada "The language, the focus on American politics and warfare, the contrarian dialogue with friends ... gives way, just often enough, to rage ... at how the century began."-Gord Sellar "Sibum has a natural gift of meditative narrative, a quite powerful instinctive sense of appropriate form, and a wonderful and diverse eloquence in the old sense of that word."-Michael Schmidt

A timely work whose apocalpytic vision of a cultures and empires on the brink will speak to present-day anxiety re: the decline of America Sibum was a draft dodger in the 70s, and has an outsider's perspective on a country he both loves and hates