Learning to Miss

Learning to Miss

by Paul Nelson

Overview

Learning to Miss opens with imagery of events, moments, that dream into, and imagine beyond "getting on with it." Imagining, in the next group, holds the love and empathy of an aging, experienced, self-aware observer, while the final group works some family history into the movie I make of my past, as I direct and act, having learned to miss, not kill ... to let live, "slant," by art.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781771833448
Publisher: Guernica Editions, Incorporated
Publication date: 10/01/2018
Series: Guernica World Editions , #10
Edition description: First edition
Pages: 100
Product dimensions: 5.00(w) x 8.00(h) x 0.30(d)

About the Author

Learning to Miss is Paul Nelson's ninth book of poetry. Days Off was an AWP Award winner, and The Hard Shapes of Paradise a University of Alabama Press Series Selection. Burning the Furniture, also with Guernica Editions, came in 2014. Cargo, printed by Kim Merker, The Stonewall Press/The Seamark Press, 1972, jump-started a lifetime of writing. Downeaster by temperament, he is a National Endowment for the Arts Fellow, for years Professor of English and Director of Creative Writing for Ohio University, writing now from the Olympic Peninsula.

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CHAPTER 1

Leaning Back

A Tan Spider in My Hair

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Table of Contents

Leaning Back,
A Tan Spider in My Hair, 3,
Leaning Back, 4,
Outcrops, 5,
Road Kill, 7,
Coyotes, 9,
An Outboard Croons, 11,
Through the Ice, 13,
The Lyric Sense, 16,
Too High Bottom Step, 18,
Closed, 20,
Take, 24,
Rainbow Trout, 27,
Dog Star, 28,
Delivery, 29,
Love's Accident,
Alba, 33,
A Very Strange Enchanted Boy, 37,
It's a Tomato, Stupid!, 40,
Widows, I Think, 41,
Adam's Advice, 43,
Love's Accident, 51,
The Locks of Love Have Grown Too Heavy, 52,
Seine Watch, 54,
A Heart Needs a Raft, 56,
Brown Bats, 59,
At the Edge of the Lake, 60,
The Monastery, 62,
The Screen Door,
But Light is Nothing, 67,
Tracery, 68,
Turtle, 72,
Nana's Lime Green Easy, 73,
Recruit, 74,
Winter's Raven, 75,
Aubade, 76,
Smolder, 77,
December 21st, 78,
Canada Geese, 79,
The Patient Heart, 80,
Crow, 82,
Learning to Miss, 84,
Shove It Off Afire, 85,
Icebox, 87,
New Nests Blow Loose, 88,
The Screen Door, 89,
Acknowledgment, 90,
About the Author, 91,

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