The Nectar Dancer

<p>These sixty-one poems only a few of which are longer than a page have the clarity and terseness that newspaper reporters strive for. No wonder-Donald Mace Williams spent most of his long adulthood as a newspaper writer and editor. They are his observations full of joy and sadness about life loss and nature. </p><p>Williams spent more than seventy years as a devoted student and amateur singer of German Lieder by Schubert and other great composers. That concentration may account in part for the metrical flow the frequent rhymes and the beginning-middle-and end structure of most of his poems.</p><p>Williams now in his nineties has always been a traditionalist in his literary and musical tastes. Meter and rhyme may be unfashionable today but to Williams they remain like him alive and well.</p>