Falconry and other poems

This is an expanded edition of a collection of Formalist poems originally issued by Unlimited Publishing in 2003. That edition described Houghton's blank verse as "a seamless modernization of Robert Frost." The characters of these poems show glimpses of a spiritual world hidden, not in the forest paths and stone fences of New England, but in the wide fields of the Midwest, and in the rugged landscape of human relationships. The metrical discipline beneath the seemingly natural speech of Houghton's characters reflects contemporary sensibilities in a transparent mirror of classical forms and structures--individual sonnets, a sonnet cycle, and longer form pieces. While a few of the poems have appeared previously in such publications as "The Living Church" and "The Classical Outlook," this is Houghton's first book-length collection of poetry.