"Sibum's poems are not everyone's cup of tea ... instead of breathing air they inhale the exhaust of apocalyptic times."
- Books in Canada
Sub Divo is a screed against the cultural impotence of modernity, and the decline of American empire. Personal, epistolary, corrosive, vented with Sibum's classical spleen and explosive prosody, this collection teems with emperors, historians, presidents, politicians, musicians, composers, trollops, poets, gods. Few poets could pair such a flirtatious and colloquial style with such allusive breadth.