The sound-poetry presentation like "Moth Sonata," the intricate songs that the poet weaves with the thread of subhuman worlds, a rich imagination pushed to the limits of originality and a comic perception of the universe that often takes the dimensions of a full rhetoric of irony make of Joe Rosenblatt a frivolous Kafka, an amusing Poe, a smiling Lautréamont; in short: a man André Breton would have welcomed in his anthology of black humour. Because he is all this, the author of Top Soil should be considered as the most talented poet writing in English Canada today, even if (not like many others) he doesn't take himself seriously. (p. 100)