Spring and Autumn

About the Book

Many of these poems are about natural allies, the young and the old, searching for the eternal inside the ephemeral. They support and redeem each other whether at the beach or building trails on my part of a Blue Ridge mountain. In balletic delight, they’re “day moons, unicorns, and boneless snakes,” transcendent joy to his pursuit of the spiritual. They are the songs that cannot be memorized, tiny threads of freedom that “alter the motion of the universe.” In this playhouse of words, they offer an endless array of actors appearing as if by train emerging from a tunnel far across the valley— the interplay of young and old, compelling as the smell of pine needles in hot noon heat of summer, clinging to my skin and clothes, claiming me the way the day claims the sky.

About the Author

Born and raised in Nebraska, Larsen Bowker has lived more than half his life on a Blue Ridge Mt. He learned the secrets of the endless horizons In Nebraska and powers of solitude in the Mts. He’s been published in poetry journals all over America. Out of the spiritual barreness of our technological age, he’s taken from his Mother’s faith in the spirit and his Father’s faith in the quiet mystery of his own two hands, he’s tried to find a place safe from the 24 news cycle can’t encroach with cynicism and loss of faith in lang- uage to express feelings, but also to express those feelings, and know we’re not alone, for his poems pivot on the fulcrum of memory’s intimacy. The poet has been nominated several times for a Pushcart Prize. He’s been published in many of America’s leading Poetry Journals. Spring and Autumn is his eighth book of poetry, and he’s working on his 9th Shadows of the Heart