I first drafted a few of these poems as long ago as 50 years, when I branched out from landscape painting into poetry, expanding the direct observation of my surroundings from the visual to the verbal. The book divides distinctly into 3 thematic sections poems about the arts, animals, old age. Arts comprises Visual, Musical, Literary. Visual is dominated by 17th Century Dutch, the first painters to focus on landscape for its own sake, and also raised portraiture to new levels. Also included are my contemporary fellow realist painters. Next come examples of Music that have touched me deeply, from workgang chants heard as a child, to Appalachian folk songs which helped introduce me to reallife emotions, to the sane life material as expanded by Bach and Beethoven. The Literary section touches mainly on poets who became important to me, and have remained so. The one nonpoet is F. Scott Fitzgerald, who, for no logical reason that I could find, is buried in my hometown. This poem reflects on the theme of becoming estranged from ones origins. Animal Industry is the next section, being observations of creatures going about their natural lives or being hunted by us. On this theme is a poem about the 17th Century beaver trade in New England. Sunset, the title of the books final section, has a twofold meaning. My wife and I see a sunset every day of the year from the 4th floor studio where we live. Secondly, Im in the sunset years. I write about being careful in walking, about...

Binding: Paperback;108 pages; Publisher: Goose River Press; Classification: N/A; Weight: 268.32 g; Dimensions: N/A

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