""She said: I WANT TO TAKE YOU HOME TO PRINGUS / Wherever that is in the galaxy / or perhaps it materializes / only in those possessed / by a symphonic poem of "Homecoming" "" Whereas the speaker of these lines is reported by the poet to be drunk, surely we may read into this drunkenness, aside from an appeal to the realism of modern poetry, a metaphor also for divine intoxication. These highly charged lines in Mr. Jaimot's stupendous title-poem bring to mind the brilliance and beauty of Dante's Inferno when Beatrice makes an apparition to Virgil in Hell. They evoke also something of the profoundly-moving simplicity of the poetry of "homecoming" in Homer's Odyssey. One hundred per cent a modernist in style and temper, Mr. Jaimot, like T. S. Eliot, is keenly aware of roots and likewise embraces traditional values. May his poetry resonate chords in the innermost depths of many a searching spirit .!"" Joe Ruggier (editor & publisher)