Bøger af Rodney Nelson

Poet Rodney Nelson's home region, the Red River prairie, has been called a valley but is in fact a seabed with hidden beaches rimming it. The native and restored grassland of Felton Prairie is up on one of these. Nelson walks there often and has borrowed its name for this collection of poems.

Come and take a hike through southwestern landscape: "Trail to the Past" areas in Rodney Nelson's descriptive "pictographs"- Rodney Nelson is an avid hiker who writes about his experiences in the western United States. His book Mogollon Picnic highlights the Mogollon Rim excursions in New Mexico and explores them in a moving and unique way.

Nelson's yard is more than a measurement, more than partial of an acre which still measures a man; his yard is an even bigger free land full of sightings-beauty of following of a river, spotting an old cotton woody and a rock dove; even stepping out on Broadway the author finds sight in what needs to be said, lets loose from the mind, and what wasn't spoken years before, possibly forgotten but by him, it's there on each page. Words for the Deed is yet another brilliant book of Rodney Nelson, here to remind us to see the landscape and all around, to remember.

Rodney Nelson entered into a "late flowering" at an age when most poets are content to write blurbs and accept honors on what they have already written. The turn of the millennium marked a return to poetry for him-he had been a novelist and a playwright-and to his own amazement, new work would not stop coming. At the same time, the publication of his poetry in burgeoning electronic journals introduced him to a wider readership than he had ever known. Nelson's recent work has seen print, too. There have been chapbooks and books. But Cross Point Road is his first major collection. "It would not do to try to put content or theme before art," he claims; however, readers will note the prevalence of western American landscape behind and within his lines, especially that of his native northern Great Plains. Cross Point Road is in part Nelson's tribute to the world he has found outside the windshield.