Robert DeMott Poradie kníh

Each of these hybrid "proems," inspired in part by Audubon's great book, attempts to combine the amplitude and spaciousness of prose with the compression and focus of poetry. In traveling into darkly intertwined spaces of personal geography, memory, emotion, and loss, as well as into wild nature, each piece surrounds its lyrical moment in a context of details, imaginings, and resonances with which to express its dramatic occasion.

V Monoterey, na kalifornskom pobreží, sa sladkým štvrtkom označuje deň, ktorý následuje po horkej strede. To zvykne byť deň keď sa nič nedarí. Návratom na uličku Na plechárni, s jej nezameniteľnými postavami, ožil John Steinbeck dobre známy svet smiechu a sĺz svojského podsvetia. Doslov Viktor Krupa.