Poetry. A poem-sequence that negotiates the spaces between word and world, poetry and thought, refusing to be absorbed into any existing structure. Perception becomes the push, the call to poetry, and the variances of that perception force us to realize that "[a]dopting any convenient definition/ is altogether the problem when foxglove/ glimmers on one of the ancient walls."

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.