Petrushkin! is the fifth collection published by Ron Charach, a fine Canadian psychiatrist-poet. Most of these poems are energetic narratives written in an expansive and frequently witty style. Charach uses ordinary language and the images of day-to-day life, but often converts them into surprising oases of beauty, as is the case with "Miss Karyn McNally's Face": "How sorely wanted is your beauty / on this damp loveless winter day."