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Windmill by David Romtvedt 264 pages, 5 1/2 x 8 1/2 $14.95, paper, 1-878610-62-7 In his essays on his small town, the local economy, the local culture, being a nonhunter, death, sheep, and weather, Romtvedt indeed conveys a sense of place and simple wisdom. --LIBRARY JOURNAL |
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Award-winning poet David Romtvedt lives in the high,  harsh
dry plains of northeastern Wyoming, the heart of the Basque community, where
the struggle to survive the elements of climate and terrain shapes all who
live there. Using the windmill as metaphor, as Thoreau uses the pond, Romtvedt
takes the reader on a philosophical and spiritual search of fundamental
truths in the seemingly commonplace elements of daily existence. With a
gentle and light touch, he brings the reader to a distant and unfamiliar
place and community. As he seeks to understand his own place in the world,
he allows us to question the verities of our place in the much larger context
of genuine engagement and the demands of a realized life. Romtvedt shows
us that what seems to be a barren wasteland can truly be a place where the
human spirit triumphs. |