Poetry. "STARE DECISIS endeavors to explore the inner workings of poetic language, digging into the mechanisms that allow meaning, identity, and understanding to emerge"—Susan Smith Nash. "He isolates rare and beautiful words so much that they begin to pulse with a visceral, frustrated rage.... Nelson has planted his flag on the far edge of new poesie pure, and marked a boundary with fierce energy"—Henry Gould.

Author City: PAWTUCKET, RI USA

Born in Los Angeles, Gale Nelson has lived in Providence since the 1980s. He has taught at Trinity Repertory Conservatory and Brown University, where he is Assistant Director of the Department of Literary Arts. Gale Nelson is the author of THIS IS WHAT HAPPENS WHEN TALK ENDS, CERTERIS PARIBUS, and STARE DECISIS as well as of a number of chapbooks. He is represented in the anthology 49+1: Nouveaux Poètes Américains, and two of this plays, "Disciplining the Dimes" and "The Undiapered Filefish," are included in The Joy of Phonetics and Accents by Louis Colaianni. He is also the editor of paradigm press.