Canadian Literature admires Human Resources

'Zolf's Human Resources features a photo of what looks to be old stone work, ochre, in the shape of a distorted male face. What appears to be an ear is suspiciously low, near the neck. Things are not as they seem ...

Zolf ... uses, abuses, spews language. Business language is ruse; she must reinvent it. 'Money / makes words into alien things.' Her opening poem called 'Start here' begins 'The job is to write in 'plain language'.' By the end, her poems are peppered with a series of numbers replacing words. One poem is all numbers, but for punctuation marks and an 'ed' suggesting a number is a past tense regular verb. In the last poem, she reverts to words: 'Look for the hidden meaning use it as a lightning rod / more pokes at the communication.''