Although the voices praising French Canada and its people have been frequently those of the Canadiens themselves, we must recognize that the Canadians of French speech have wrought miracles in their determination to remain a group and provide a society so that their identity would be preserved.
Raymond Souster is one of the very few good poets practisinig in Canada today who has neither succumbed to the lure of the symbold drawn from the academically proper mythological or psychological sources nor crowded his lines with metaphors that tax the ingenuity of readers to read more than 'being' into them.
Most of the poems in this first book are just as flat, prosy and two-dimensional as the prairie wheat fields which the author describes with such exactness.