SOURCE: A review of Antarctic Traveller, in The Virginia Quarterly Review, Vol. 58, No. 3, Summer, 1982, p. 92.

In the review below, the critic describes Antarctic Traveller as a well crafted debut.

These poems convey the quotidian and the unfamiliar equally well with dazzling imagery and careful craftsmanship. For instance, in a series of "Vegetable Poems" the everyday potato is seen with "softened, mealy flesh / rotting into the earth … but still flinging up roots and occasional leaves / white as fish in caves," and the unfamiliar "A Turkish Story" tells of a rug weaver who kept his daughters at home, unmarried, while he worked on a rug that would have no errors. When he died, his daughters married husbands "strong as the sea. / They danced on the rug and its errors blazed like stars." Antarctic Traveller is a young poet's first book, and it's a good one.