Notes Drawn from the River of Ecstasy

Notes Drawn from the River of Ecstasy is William Kistler's fourth and most adventurous volume of poetry. These poems engage the harsh economic and social realities of late 20th century life and simultaneously the most subtle threads of love. This work looks back to the ideal love and sharp-tongued social criticism of the French Troubadour poets of the 12th century and forward to the poetry of interstellar space which waits in the 21st century. Kistler's poetry comes to us from the river flow of the timeless and it reinvents itself on page after page as an imaginative examination of life in the commercial capital of the world. These are poems of vision and experience.