Bücher von Kathy Nelson

"Why remember the dead?" poet Kathy Nelson begins this sobering meditation, a descent and rise through what's lost and sometimes found again, her keen eye on the natural world, her mother in the Bardo and in life, both trouble and love restored, unshakable grief, regret, triumph, mystery... And why exactly? Because we need these poems as lens, as touchstone. And such lovely, startling interventions of language and image! Vivid detail, layer upon layer-say, a "landscape stitched with fencerows," or to hold a breath "until someone unlocks the door." That someone is this most remarkable poet. "Last night," Nelson writes, "I found a hidden stairway leading down/into a maze of rooms ..." And what a rewarding gift for all of us, to follow her there. -Marianne Boruch, Bestiary Dark

Whose Names Have Slipped Away, published by Finishing Line Press, is poet Kathy Nelson's second chapbook collection of poems. The poems in this collection are meditations on nature observed through the lens of relationship and through the universal experience of impermanence. Poet Tina Barr says that "Kathy Nelson's work ministers to the deep places within us; she explores difficult interpersonal arenas with conviction and courage." Editor and poet Nancy Dillingham calls Kathy Nelson's poems "brilliant distillations of moments in nature … (that) mirror, and become metaphor for, the eternal struggles between daughters and mothers."