... PRAISE FOR WALLY SWIST'S POETRY "What a gorgeous book this is Wally Swist writes of passionate love with a quiet grace that stirred this reader's heart. Each individual poem moved me deeply; as a whole, Luminous Dream simply knocked me out. Shades of Pablo Neruda, Mary Oliver, and Gary Snyder abound, yet the poet's voice is uniquely his own. This is a book I will return to again and again with deep pleasure." -Leslea Newman, author Nobody's Mother and Still Life with Buddy, Poet Laureate, Northampton, MA 2008-2010 "These poems are a beautifully perceptive reading of both the natural world and ourselves as its necessary testament and witness. If 'seeing is believing, ' then Wally Swist can make believers of us all." -Robert Creeley "Wally Swist's poems are full of clean perceptions and clear, proportionate feeling. They are easy to read in the sense that they are continually rewarding. They have a fine balance, doing justice to the natural, the human, and the divine, and treating none of these as refuge from another. As a grateful reader, I applaud him." -Richard Wilbur