Synopses & Reviews
Synopsis
The poems in
Before the Wind must speak for themselves with passionate clarity:
'A shriek in black ink down a diary's page." from "Passage: March 9, 1936."
'Savoring the perversity of power, I opened my hand." from 'Adventuring"
'In that world within our world
The explosion of Armageddon " from 'A Conundrum Visited."
'Oh Greedy Race to want much more than human " from 'Speed"
'Thirty-four million miles apart,
Through space so narrow that
Your passing's like a kiss."
from 'On Seeing Mars" (August 27, 2003)
All the elements of fine ballads, free and rhymed verses, sonnets, and a villanelle are present in this volume. The past collides with the present in surprising images, and the vivid future is both possible and probable.