This first collection of poems by Stedmond Pardy has the potential to become a landmark in Canadian literature. Reading Stedmond Pardy's jazz-infused poetry is to be pulled into a different world. As heavily influenced by surrealism as he is by the Beat Generation, the worlds Pardy creates can be full of awes, beauty, wonder, darkness, despair and much more.

A psychedelic rant, Pardy's poetry is also the utterance of a well-informed, streetwise, passionate voice, prophesying doom and hoping for peace in long, lyric lines that sing.