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    A Flock of Words
    A Flock of Words
    A Flock of Words
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    A Flock of Words

    By Burt Porter

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    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, Porters poems both ground the reader in the patience of witnessing day-to-day life while encouraging our imaginations to take flight.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisheriUniverse
    Release dateMar 30, 2011
    ISBN9781462000739
    A Flock of Words
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    Burt Porter

    Burt Porter holds a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Connecticut and a Master of Arts from Wesleyan University. He is a well-known local fiddler and ballad singer who has lived in the same old farmhouse in Vermont’s Northeast Kingdom for the last fifty years. His companions are Lindsay Knowlton, also an accomplished poet, and his two sons and their families.

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