Singing the Springs
by H.R. Stoneback
ISBN 0-916620-73-5
192 pages $15

"When you read - or hear him read - these songs and legends you know you are in the presence of a compelling, original, profound, and truly remarkable voice." - W. Evans Benton, poet, critic, Paris.

"These poems spring and sing right out of the earth - then suddenly they soar and the reader feels as if she were on the Concorde. . . There are spring-songs from all over the world here, from France and China and the States. And, as with the many poems of Provence found here, the reader is led to feel deeply that if ever we are to reconnect with and renew the roots, the myths and traditions and songs that make us what we are - the time is now, through these poems. . .I hug these songs to my heart." - Catherine Aldington, poet, translator, Paris.

"H.R. Stoneback's narrative poems cut to the hearts of their own mythologies as outer landscapes become inner." - Donald Junkins, U. of Massachusetts.