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Learning to Miss

Learning to Miss

By Paul Nelson

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.

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Guernica World Editions (World Poetry)

9781771833448

100 pages |

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The poems in Learning to Miss are a marvel. Whether Paul Nelson is chronicling a journey, describing preparations for slaughtering sheep in Maine, or recounting the habits of a gecko on a Hawaiian wall, his poems ring with authenticity, the hard particularity that derives from sustained, close observation. Then he tells us, "Everything is everything else, all the time," ... and we believe him. - Don Johnson, author of Here and Gone: New and Selected Poems

The poems in Learning to Miss are a marvel. Whether Paul Nelson is chronicling a journey, describing preparations for slaughtering sheep in Maine, or recounting the habits of a gecko on a Hawaiian wall, his poems ring with authenticity, the hard particularity that derives from sustained, close observation. Then he tells us, “Everything is everything else, all the time,” … and we believe him.

Don Johnson, author of Here and Gone: New and Selected Poems

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Paul Nelson, for years Professor/Director of Creative Writing for Ohio University, is the author of numerous books, including Days Off, an AWP Winner, and The Hard Shapes Of Paradise, a University of Alabama Press Series Selection. Sea Level appeared in 2008 with Main Street Publishing, and a chapbook, I Brought Her Juicy, Thin-Skinned Lemons, with Finishing Line Press in 2012. He edits Kaimana, Hawaii’s state funded literary magazine. A National Endowment for the Arts Fellow, he writes from Mokule’ia on the North Shore of O’ahu.