Tracings in Snow

Scott J. Brooks has achieved a great sense of tender and timeless poetry. Whether readers come from small rural Wisconsin towns or remote villages in Turkey or Japan, they will feel cleansed with the haunting purity and mystical echo of these poems. The craft he uses to describe nature and its unique kaleidoscope of wonder pulls you so close that there is no longer a subject-object relationship with the poems, but rather a pure experience of being the poems themselves. While reading Brooks¿ poetry, the soul slowly rewinds itself back to the innocence of childhood and reclaims the beauty of looking at the world through excitement soaked eyes and mountain grinning joy. This is a splendid collection, deserving wide readership for generations to come.

Scott J. Brooks was born and raised in rural Sheboygan Wisconsin on the western shores of Lake Michigan. He received his bachelor's degree from UW-Oshkosh in 1979 and went on to complete Master of Arts degrees from UW-Green Bay ('83) and UW-Madison ('85). Scott has two previously published books by Goose River Press, The Taste of Pitch and Thunder Lake. Scott is currently a counselor in Oshkosh where he works with people with disabilities.