Laike and Nahum: A Poem in Two Voices is a long, narrative poem based loosely on the lives of the poet's maternal grandparents, Russian Jewish immigrants to Montreal in the early part of the twentieth century. Her grandmother arrived in Canada as a child; her grandfather was already a young man in his early twenties upon his arrival in this country. The poem is inspired by the intense courtship and sixty-year marriage of the poet's grandparents, the...