Through the Cities and the Woods

In his debut poetry collection Through the Cities and the Woods, Thomas Doerksen paints scenes that juxtapose images from the natural world with those of postindustrial dystopia; where he shows some-who make the daunting attempt to derive an identity, and to make connections, in the face of crushing daily overwhelm-and others-who live automatically and unquestioningly, unconcerned with, or incapable of, imagination and wonder; and where he describes the sparks interspersed among the rhythm...