SOUTH OF THE TUDO BEM CAFE Jan Conn Montreal, Vehicule Press, 1990. 102pp, paper, $9.95 ISBN 1-550565-008-4. CIP Grades 12 and up/Ages 17 and up Reviewed by Don Precosky. Volume 19 Number 2 1991 March South of the Tudo Bern Café is an enjoyable though not startling or earth-shaking book of poems set mostly in the exotic reaches of Central and South America, though Canada, the U.S.A. and Ireland also appear. The book is written in four parts, the poems in each part sharing a common time and place but with a good number of flashbacks in each section. Indeed, I think it would be fair to call this a past-haunted book (especially in the first part). All through the collection the present is interrupted by memories of her mother's suicide, of her unsatisfactory relationship with her rather, and of broken relationships with men. Description looms large in this collection - particularly floral descrip­tion. Everywhere there are tropical flowers and plants. Most of the words in the glossary provided at the back are explanations of tropical plants men­tioned in the poems. In reading this book I got the strange sense that Conn's personal life is in the background. The scenery receives more attention than the characters. Don Precosky, College of New Caledonia, Prince George, B.C.