Rival Heavens (1993)
Poetry

Ladder of Hours:  Poems 1969—2005 (2005)
“I began to write in the simplest and most straightforward language because I thought it would be easy. And because I had no audience, any attempt to impress or seduce the reader with rhetoric would only come back to me. Years later, by the time I realized how difficult it is to write simply, I was hooked on the promise of its reward.

“While technically these poems cover many years, more than half my life, it is in fact no time: the pleasures and sorrows that preoccupied me when I began have not gone away, but have grown clearer, sharper, more insistent upon being heard. And the mysteries I set out to explore have, as mysteries do, only deepened and widened. I stand no nearer conclusion now than I did then, yet, as if in compensation, writing has given me a second, concurrent life, more like a companion than a shadow.

“A poet can only hope his wild stabs occasionally strike bone, a startling occurrence for both the reader and writer. It’s fitting for an art born of solitude that we share these moments alone.”  -- quoted from the author, from Ausable Press