Wayne H Swanger

Fields of His Heart Wayne H Swanger

The first thing you should know about Wayne is that he's a gardener, a grower, raised in a community of farmers and laborers. He lives close to the land, as so many of these poems attest. He gives us the landscapes of central and northwestern Pennsylvania--barns, runs, forest floor-and in them uncovers quiet moments of insight and humor. Insight and humor mark his poems of the spirit as well. Non-doctrinaire, they instead invite us into sacred spaces of the everyday. And the people! This collection is well-populated with workers, dreamers, lovers. Some may be hurt by the world, but they remain radiant in their humanity. Grief and joy dance here. Whether short and aphoristic or careful and meditative, all the poems sing in conversational free verse. Join this poet as he invites you to "share a gardener's contentment / with that which blesses / one's senses / and soul."- from the Foreword by Deborah Sarbin