The Poetry Of Windwalker (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780615968636)

WINDWALKER is the pen name used by Dale Musser for his poetry, a name he received after going on a vision quest in 1998 with the aid of a Native American shaman. He was born in 1944 in the small rural community of Kantz, Pennsylvania, where his family owned and operated a general store. Behind his home flowed Middlecreek, an area that served to inspire much of Dale's poetry. From 1967 to 2012 he was employed as a structural and piping designer in the marine and offshore industry, the cogeneration power industry and in hard rock metal mining. His work at three shipyards and assignments with several engineering and naval architectural firms during his career in Virginia, Texas and Maine took him to such places as London, U.K., Abu Dhabi, U.A.E., Scotland and Mexico. During this time, he was responsible for the design of nuclear aircraft carrier and submarine reactor compartments for the U.S. Navy and the structural designs of numerous offshore semisubmersible oil rigs, tanker ships, supply boats and other vessels and equipment used in the offshore industry. After the death of his wife in 1999, Mr. Musser changed careers and went to work in Arizona and Utah in the hard rock mining industry. He retired in fall of 2012 and currently resides in Mesa, Arizona; however, his plans for the near future involve a move to New Mexico. Dale enjoys rock hunting and lapidary work, gourmet cooking, writing, poetry, art, music, religions and philosophies in small doses, astronomy and the sciences in general, hiking, camping, the outdoors, and the gifts that nature provides. Mr. Musser is a member of Mensa and avid reader, having lost count of all the books he has read after 3,000. The greatest joy in his life is his daughter, Heather; affectionately they call each other "BUBBY." Dale also enjoys writing science fiction and non-fiction works. His fiction works are published under the name Dale C. Musser.