Touched By Its Rays

Touched By Its Rays by Walter Donway [Hardback] Walter Donway is a new poet for our time. His poetry deals with current events, conflicts, and aspirations, but it uses all the resources of the enduring poetic forms: rhyme, meter, epic storytelling, drama, satire, and song. Donway rejects obscurity without sacrificing depth; he rejects free verse without sacrificing the richness of rhythm. This book is for those who love the music of language that ignited our interest in poetry as children and those who long for poetry in the great tradition that also speaks to us today.  ***** From the Barabara Branden review for the Atlasphere: “While much of modern poetry is unintelligible doggerel, full of despair, at least one contemporary poet has put forth a collection of beautifully crafted, inspiring poems — and we are all ‘touched by its rays.’ “Beauty of language, combined with originality and clarity of thought, that I had feared were lost to poetry, have been found in at least one poet writ