Hemispere of Love reflrects the author's passion and honesty as he delves into the mystery of love and strives to bring order to human experience. In this collection a range of scenes and sitations is carefully carved in words and couched in meaphor. Geographical and spiritual boundaries, shifting tonalities, and moods carry the reader into Dabydeen's complex universe. Janus-faces, he continually looks forward and backward.
"A fine craftsman and a wonderful weaver of images and rhythms." - Kwame Dawes, World Literature Today
"... skilled, crafted, layered, full of contrasts." - Books in Canada, of Stoning the Wind
"A gifted Canadian poet." - The Toronto Star
"His work reflects a unique sense of history and consciousness, making him distinctive ... he bends both outsider and insider perspectives of Canada in a compelling vision." - Joy Kogawa
