Customer Reviews:

• "Dan Tharp’s newest chapbook, A Season Made for Wandering, is a showcase for Dan’s best work yet. Though the poems therein are rarely ones of any specific traditional rhyming form, they are still imbued with a wonderful lyrical quality, and Dan has crafted them well, taking each poem’s theme logically and eloquently to its conclusion. Dan is also adept at writing succinct “itty bitty” poems in which he exhibits both his wry humor and reflective nature. Great examples of these poems are “Trickling Stream,” “Forgotten Friend,” “Dust that Gathers,” “Song Birds Will Sing,” “Instrument,” “Selective Hearing,” “Prison Cell” (which is a metaphor for the outlook he takes on his own writing), and this one, untitled, which I rather enjoyed:

The rainbow’s end
          is unattainable.
Her pot of gold is where you are.

Dan’s longer and equally well-written poems are too numerous to name here, but my very favorites were these: “Had My Eyes Been Plucked,” “The One I See in You,” “Still Life Photos,” “Stones Sing Not?” the beautiful tribute to God and nature entitled “. . . Praise Him Loud and Long,” “Hushed Whispers,” and the outstanding poem for which this lovely chapbook was named and placed fittingly at the book’s end, “A Season Made for Wandering.” - Andrea Dietrich, Author/Poet