These poems in the poetry collection have an impressive simplicity of style devoid of archaic and artificial diction. The chief interest of these poems is the employment of imagery with extraordinary effectiveness. Particularly impressive is attractive diction and admirable phrasing. The style of these poems exhibits crispness and energy devoid of any obscurity.
BIODuane L. Herrmann, internationally published, award-winning poet and historian, with degrees in Education and History, has held a variety of teaching and other positions, now retired. His history and poetry have won awards and are translated into several languages on as many continents in print and online. He has a sci fi novel:
Escape from Earth, plus full-length collections of poetry:
Prairies of Possibilities, Ichnographical: 173,
Praise the King of Glory, Remnants of a Life,
No Known Address,
Family Plowing. and many chapbooks of poetry and history. His poetry has received the Robert Hayden Poetry Fellowship, inclusion in
American Poets of the 1990s, the Map of Kansas Literature (website), Kansas Poets Trail and others. His history,
By Thy Strengthening Grace, received the Ferguson Kansas History Book Award. His work has appeared in over 100 publications and more than fifty anthologies. Collections of short stories and historical articles are forthcoming. These accomplishments defy his traumatic childhood embellished by dyslexia, ADHD, cyclothymia, an anxiety disorder and, now PTSD.
