Solstices

This extraordinary collection of modern verse coruscates off the page, with each skillfully crafted vignette giving us a vision of the beauty all around us, as limned by the ecstatic pen of the poet. Martha Chapman Seibel is in love with nature, and this is a collection of love songs. We are drawn into her vision of our world as if into an intoxicating fantasy. Too often we miss the surprise and joy that surrounds us, but here we find it depicted delightfully in both poetry and pictures.

To seek out the fantastic hiding among the mundane, to arouse emotion, and to whet desire, these have always been the tasks of the poet and the minstrel. This volume succeeds in reawakening a sense of beauty that is rare indeed.