Art Elser: 3 books

To See the World in a Grain of Sand is a collection of poems about incidents, memories, and meditations that span eight decades of the poet's life. Grain of Sand is divided into four sections, Blueberry Summers about childhood and family, Did the Hand Then of the Potter Shake? about humanity and questions...

The 120 haiku in As The Crow Flies were selected from over 2,000 haiku written over six years. They express the poet's sense of wonder and awe for the beauty and variety of nature and his love for humankind. They were written in a daily exchange of haiku with Christine Valentine, a gifted poet, his mentor and friend.

The poems in A Death at Tollgate Creek evoke the spirit of the high plains, its sand lilies, prairie grasses, coyotes, rattlesnakes, pronghorn, thundering buffalo herds, the Cheyenne Indians who once hunted them, the ferocity of its storms, and crickets singing in the peacefulness of the prairie under...