Music Crystals

These poems were written in many sanctuaries, retreats, islands, estates, cabins, shacks and camps throughout the Pacific Northwest, Montana and Mexico. Hale Thatcher is a poet, a hermit, a vagabond and the author of twelve books, and music and poetry CDs, tapes and film. “I like Hale Thatcher’s poetry because it comes to the edge of the supernatural and then stays there. But it is really our own, shared world; the natural perceived with such pure wonder, through such clear senses, that it seems supernatural. And it is very beautiful writing.” —THOM GUNN. “A poet of deep and penetrating talent.” —CECILE PINEDA. “Not just a nature poet, he is a primitive, a visionary. He is to poetry what Henri Rousseau is to painting.” —PATRICK BRINTON. “The bold imagery, the magic of place, the sense of color and rhythm, produce a new voice in American poetry.” —SILAS GREEN.