An Act of Courage Selected Poems of Mort Krahling

"Mort Krahling was Kent�s Miniver Cheevy, up from Alliance, Ohio, to make a life and to keep the books here in this town of rail and river....There is an air of privacy about Mort�s poems as if they were casual personal notes that he might offer to a friend, over coffee, across a kitchen table. He had the gift of touching things lightly...At odds with much in the world, Mort lived most fully in these poems through which he became one of Kent�s enduring voices. These poems are his real home." ~Maj Ragain, author of Twist the Axe: A Horseplayer�s Story ....

"Old Mort Krahling. Old Kent Ohio. Of the two I am glad to hear Mort is still alive here. If you lean in close, he'll hand you his small hard words. Hard like old wood. Complex grain. Polished only with the oils of his gone skin." Ted Lyons, Kent State University