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The author is awfully tall (6' 8") to fit in such small books. But he folds his notions well and writes humbly.
This first book of poems by Carl Nelson delights in verbal play, rumination, assonance and dissonance, silliness and sadness, the comedy/drama of the small event, the inspired flight of thought, and topics of all sorts from Dumbo to Oscar Wilde. What's a book for if not a place to fly poems like paper airplanes.
Poems that push the contrary. Poems that vent. Poems that stick their tongue out and don't wash their hands. Poems that are critical. Poems that eulogize Bukowski. Poems that embrace unpopular topics and thoughts. Poems that embrace religion and bourgeoisie life and still enjoy small birds, kids, and dogs.
Poems taken from a current life of moseying around a small Ohio river town.
Poems for every mood - born from the marriage of a poet and a business person: a little romance, something about the kinfolk, some of Appalachia, a bit about sales, a lot more about poetry, and several methods by which all this is juggled within a marriage over the span of 30 years. (Advisement: metaphors were used in the production of these poems. A few may have been hurt.)
"God puts treasure in earthen vessels." - R.R. Reno
A lot of garden fresh vegetables and brilliant sunshine were absorbed in the conceiving of these poems. Dogs were walked; neighbors chatted up. The only time politics intruded was when I opened my computer or read or watched the news. Generally, we grow our culture here, locally. The struggle is real.
Generally, whenever we purchase a complicated device, included in the packaging is a user’s manual. Usually, we don’t read it until after we have gotten stuck and tried every other sort of fix. Humans are delivered without a user’s manual (albeit the Bible). But, as just noted, how would it matter?
In any event, the Self continues Assembling right up until death. So consider the following chapters and pages to be the User Manual for Carl Nelson, which include a Self-Assembly contents. At this late of a date, you may not bother to read it. Or perhaps you will wait until my final utterance for purchase. Or, perhaps never. That is quite likely.
Oh well… It’s always the unspoken thought at any funeral as to whose loss it is.
I used to say that as a playwright I was "trying to write a satisfactory conversation". What I have found is that friends and others can also make an excellent poem. You can handle them like dolls; place them here and there, pose them, and observe them from all sorts of perspectives. And when they tell you something you didn't know, you're finished. This works well in this volume for friends, others... even dogs.
"Imagine a 13-year-old Thai boy of 60 pounds suddenly adopted by a dad from across the seas who is five times his size and a poet. We made an odd pairing.
At the time, we were each “aging out”, as the expression says. My wife and I were on the edge of being considered too old to adopt. While Tin Tin also was reaching the upper age limit for adoption - a few more years and he would have ‘graduated’ from the orphanage on his own. The irony of all this is that he was to become a very precocious boy in a very late-blooming family."
My grandma read me poetry from an old 1800 poetry book by Longfellow. She had the book forever. She almost lost it in the 1913 flood but found it in the mud outside her house when the river went down.
The poetry of a woman's life lived in rural Appalachia on the Ohio River. Deftly written characters and piquant stories will engage you.
I met my friend when we were nine and in the third grade.
When anyone talked to her she hung her head
and chewed her long stringy hair.
We had a couple of things in common, so she talked to me.
Our dads and grandfathers were friends.
Both of our grandfathers also committed suicide a few days apart.
Grotesque spirits talk to Christopher with encompassing metaphors in short utterances.
Christopher Friend gives us a bejeweled accounting of the spiritual presences inhabiting his West Virginia, in drawings, poems, and essay form. Odd word pairings, curious accounts, and strange images will challenge the reader.
A Naval Officer's Wife writes short Homeric revelries to Children and the Abandoned Heart.
A Key West Submarine Officer's Wife deploys deep into the worlds of poetry while her husband deploys to sea.
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