Within and Without: Poems

The focus is on harmony unity beauty. These poems are lyrical dewdrops distillations of Whitmanesque enthusiasms minus the excess. - Pacific Book Review Passionate philosophical and quaintly picturesque the authors collection reads like a romantic devotional. - US Review of Books In Within and Without-as in his previous collections of poems Progression and JAD-Hansen explores the themes of nature philosophy and romance but more deeply and more passionately. In the first part of the book he blends philosophical insights with his love of nature and raises thought-provoking questions connecting the two. In the second part he expresses his love for his soul mate Kristen in poems that are passionate and picturesque. In both parts he uses his natural surroundings to gain insight into his inner landscape and vice versa.