Joe Rosenblatt's Dream Craters is creatured with nightmarish fantasy people, and highly sensuous language. It is an imaginative examination of the psyche, and the poems in most cases are metaphorically refreshing.

Sometimes we are lulled with gentle imagery, then cast into the violent and sadistic aura of despair, death and destruction. Some weakness appears in the repetition of certain symbols, but the overall effect is satisfying.

The form is controlled and visually effective. Internal rhyming and alliteration help create a colorful flow of words and there is no interference of the intellect over the emotions. Both meld together in an interesting and evocative manner.

Peggy Fletcher, "Books We Have Read: 'Dream Craters'" (© 1975 by Peggy Fletcher; reprinted by permission of Canadian Authors Assoc.), in Canadian Author & Bookman, Vol. 50, No. 4, Summer, 1975, pp. 26-7.