Burning the Furniture - Volume 219

Paul Nelson's new collection, Burning the Furniture, moves through a startling array of things seen while arranging the experience of them into a lucid privacy of mind that is the feature of first memory, what quiets the human heart - these are wonderful and beautiful poems. - Norman Dubie, author of The Volcano

About the author

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.

Product details

• Authors: Paul Nelson
• Publisher: Guernica Editions
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.09.2014
• EAN: 9781550719031
• ISBN: 978-1-55071-903-1
• No. of pages: 91
• Dimensions: 130 mm x 202 mm x 6 mm
• Weight: 109 g
• Series: Essential Poets (Ecco); Essential Poets (Ecco)
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies