The third volume showcasing over 200 poems - unique word-pictures - by the Angelean lyric poet Alan Lindgren (the first is "By the Sunset there's a Door" (2002), the second "Sun, Sparrow, and Star" (2009)), this is a selection of 441 poems: 341 from his finest previously-published work, plus 100 poems published for the first time. His volume "The Sun Sings: Word-Pictures 1997" (Mercury Press: Chestnut Ridge, NY, 1999) appears here in its entirety. Included are "Alan Lindgren's Poetry" by the late Dutch historian, educator, anthroposophist and author Hans Peter van Manen, Ph.D. (1931-2009)....

In "I Believe, an Imagination with Tales and Stories by Alan Lindgren," the author shares what he does best. He is the storyteller, both classic and modern. This diverse collection will engage every reader with the broad range of human feeling and emotion, from the small child to the mature reader. The author is a master folk tale writer. The genuine folk tale has the ability to communicate equally well to adult and child, on different levels. The child loves learning the lessons of the tale because it sees itself and its peers in the down-to-earth characters with the slow pace and simple...

"The Wood of Green" is a volume of 109 first-published poems, 11 first-published stories and tales, and 338 pages of mostly first-published non-fiction by the poet and writer Alan Lindgren. 91 of the poems are English, with 11 German and 7 Spanish poems. Of the stories, 7 are English with four German stories and tales with English translations by the author. A number of pages in the non-fiction section contain insights, examples, and other material into the four temperaments (see Author's Biography, below). There are two concise studies in section three of the non-fiction on humanity, which...