Poetry. "Paul Naylor's ANARCHEOLOGY charts the ebb and flow of associations with firstness: the poet's young daughter and her emergence into language, the poet's own mortality, the natural landscape, increasingly vulnerable to the 'dictates of excha...

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Poetry. The poems in this book grow out of an extended encounter with the ancient Chinese book of divination, the I Ching or Book of Changes, which is a collection of sixty-four hexagrams comprised of various combinations of broken (yin) and whole (...

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Poetry. With this volume, Tinfish Press moves from its usual concentration on the Pacific as a cultural and historical space to that of a spiritual trans-historical one. In his preface to the book, Zen priest Norman Fischer writes: "JAMMED TRANSMISS...

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Poetry. California Interest. In LUMINOUS RUSE, Paul Naylor asks, "Who could suture the wounds we become / in this diaphanous life divided as time?" The poet's answer has a lot to do with his being father to a young daughter, whose sharp questions pu...

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“Paul Naylor’s MINGLING AMONG is a beautifully sustained, thought-provoking, and companionable prose poem in five interrelated sections. Taking the paragraph as his primary unit of composition, scenes are rendered in ever-changing frames of time, sc...

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Poetry. "Here are two strikingly metaphysical poems set twenty years apart in the Wind River Wilderness of Wyoming. Working through a long tradition of Zen practice, poetry, and meditative walking, Paul Naylor has wrought poems that feel to your han...

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