'In the lyrical tradition of Robert Frost and William Butler Yeats, Burt Porter's "A Spiral Wind" is a wise and lovely celebration of hawks and falcons, waterbirds and wildflowers, literature, love, family, and a life that couldn't possibly be better lived. "A Spiral Wind" is a testimony to the power of poetry to affirm and illuminate the natural world, and all of us beings who inhabit it, in all its many splendors."

-Howard Frank Mosher, novelist, "Disappearances," "Where the Rivers Flow North"

'Burt Porter's poems have the strong and sturdy calm that comes from their regularly...

In traditional sonnet form, Burt Porter's poems celebrate the Christmas season with observations of people and nature. They describe in lush detail the quiet doings of the animals, the play of children in new fallen snow, the heightened awareness of the passing of time by grownups, and the busy work of preparation for the winter months shared by all. Written for friends and family to mark the holidays over many years, "Sonnets of the Christmas Season" exudes a sense of well-being and oneness with nature as it is rediscovered every year at this time of hope and anticipation.