Roger RoloffNew Paltz poet Roger Roloff, author of six previous collections of poems, continues in Windflowers his long and fruitful exploration of Mother Earth firsthand. A homestead gardener with a song in his heart, he is loyal to traditional ways of making ad turning the singing line: sonnets, rhymed couplets, villanelles, and blank verse, to name a few. Aided and inspired at home and afield by his wife, retired musicologist Barbara Petersen, he practices older, simpler means of living from the land while preserving its health. In essence the couple's own baker's dozen acres and fortunate surroundings in New York's Ulster County have given distinct and potent voices to these figurative blossoms, his windflowers. Read More Read Less