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These poems seem to have been made on an old workbench with simple tools by someone who has been making such things for a very long time." -William Gilson In keeping with his previous poems, Burt Porter speaks to his longtime experience in the hills of Vermont, at once an observer and participant, with comforting familiarity and abundant curiosity. His remembrances and observations of the world around him are tinged with a tempered longing, ye...

In the lyrical tradition of Robert Frost and William Butler Yeats, Burt Porter's "A Spiral Wind" 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. "A Spiral Wind" 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."-Howard Frank Mosher, noveli...

In traditional sonnet form, Burt Porter's poems celebrate the Christmas season with observations of people and nature. They describe in lush detail the quiet doings of the animals, the play of children in new fallen snow, the heightened awareness of the passing of time by grownups, and the busy work of preparation for the winter months shared by all. Written for friends and family to mark the holidays over many years, Sonnets of the Christmas ...

Hawk-Owl The frozen bog lies silent, white, and black, A few fine flakes of snow sift slowly down On stunted spruce and wind-torn tamarack As gray light fades and night comes early on ... -Burt Porter Through vivid imagery and an eloquent voice, Vermont's ardent naturalist and traditional poet, Burt Porter, brings nature to life in a collection of poems that rhythmically explore the North Country, its beauty, and inhabitants. Porte...

Hawk-Owl The frozen bog lies silent, white, and black, A few fine flakes of snow sift slowly down On stunted spruce and wind-torn tamarack As gray light fades and night comes early on ... -Burt Porter Through vivid imagery and an eloquent voice, Vermont's ardent naturalist and traditional poet, Burt Porter, brings nature to life in a collection of poems that rhythmically explore the North Country, its beauty, and inhabitants. Porte...