The hallmarks of Wally Swist’s poetry are a keen naturalist’s eye and a sensitive crafting of language. In On Beauty …, he exhibits the same qualities in critical and fictional prose and drama-all in the search for and expression of a sense of beauty. –Clarence Wolfshohl, Editor, Printer, and Publisher of Timberline Press, 1975-2015 I do love the range of [Swist’s] eclectic interests, and especially [his] incisive analysis of the various works of art and [his] eye for the beauty of things. –John Hanson Mitchell, author of Walking Towards Walden and The Wildest Place on Earth: Italian Gardens and the Invention of Wilderness