Publisher's Synopsis
Wind Tripper is Neal Ostman's first collection of poetry. The poems present evocative images by using palpable language and lucid metaphors. Poems like "The Nord Sea" and "Faraway" place you in the vast loneliness of the ocean. They convey how the drudgery of work and missing a loved one comes to hang about your shoulders. Someone once asked, 'what was it like - a young man - living through race riots, Vietnam, the psychedelic age?' This collection brings insights into the poet's journey in those times. Poems move from growing up in the heartland through war, madness, work, and love. The poems "Churned Earth" and "We Were Party Animals" are the substantive view of a 'young grunt' -a catspaw of that era. Later poems restore hope by conveying nature's beauty, particularly the raw majesty of the western United States. The poems "Bryce and Zion" and "Crying to Thunder Basin" are a balm to the absurdity of modern demands.
