James F. Wardwell

An Angel of the First Degree

Arts & Literature

“While maintaining intimacy between poet, subject, and reader, An Angel of the First Degree offers a fresh look at romantic love. With the pulse of organic rhythm Zoller’s decorous forms inhabit the theme in ‘innerworldly rhyme.’”

Ash and Embers

Arts & Literature

“Once again, in Ash and Embers, James Zoller movingly offers the descriptive splendor of the natural world often contrasted to its use, or even misuse, in human constructs, (particularly in this volume by the intrusions of warfare), and the celebration of multi-generational family love amidst probing reflections on the passage of time—all couched in the poet’s delightful phrasing, working of form, and embrace of his calling.”