A Flock of Words

About the Book

“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, yet embrace acceptance of the natural flow of things, in history, in nature, and in life. In traditional forms, Porter’s poems both ground the reader in the patience of witnessing day-to-day life while encouraging our imaginations to take flight.

About the Author

Burt Porter was born in 1937 and has degrees from the University of Connecticut and Wesleyan University. Since 1966, he has lived in Glover, Vermont, and is widely known as a balad singer, fiddler, and dance-caller. His previous book publications include Rhymes of the Magical World, Crows & Angels, Sonnets of the Christmas Season, and A Spiral Wind.