“Every city has a poet who inhabits its heart and is somehow its resident spirit. He or she may not be the most public of that city’s poets, but, more than the visible ones, holds the secrets in a clandestine sort of way…It long ago struck me that the poet of English Montreal who best exemplified the city’s soul was Artie Gold…Unusual and sometimes brilliant images rise out of a poetic voice that manages to stay close to speech and yet sound absolutely individual.”—Allo Books