A Spiral Wind

'In the lyrical tradition of Robert Frost and William Butler Yeats <B>Burt Porter</B>'s <I>A Spiral Wind</I> is a wise and lovely celebration of hawks and falcons waterbirds and wildflowers literature love family and a life that couldn't possibly be better lived. <i>A Spiral Wind</i> is a testimony to the power of poetry to affirm and illuminate the natural world and all of us beings who inhabit it in all its many splendors.</P><P>-<B>Howard Frank Mosher</B> novelist <i>Disappearances</i> <I>Where the Rivers Flow North</I></P><P>'Burt Porter's poems have the strong and sturdy calm that comes from their regularly cadenced and rhymed verses without sentimentality. These are straightforward honest poems of love for this world: poems that embody a formal down-home elegance in which we can clearly hear the legacy of Shakespeare Marvel and Donne. Here also are the close and accurate observations of a knowledgeable countryman and an accomplished naturalist. This book is a treasure trove of country wisdom and insight full of lessons from the wild.</P><P>-<B>David Budbill</B> poet and playwright <I>Judevine</i> <i>Moment to Moment: Poems of a Mountain Recluse</I></P>