Description
Poety. Caring, precise, intelligent, profound—these beautifully crafted poems come out of the poet's flesh and blood literally steaming as if freshly skinned. The book is powerful and spooky and lovely all at the same time.
"I'm writing about it because / I may have stopped believing / it ever existed for me;" W. Nick Hill asks us to be careful and exuberant in our devotions. From the formal elegance of the hexagrams to the free form linguistic celebration of poems like 'Night, The Daily Refuge,' Blue Nocturne is a deeply conscious meditation on the relationship between action and consequence. Like a caravan these poems bear their gifts one page after another toward a truly restorative wisdom."—Gary Lemons
Author Bio
W. Nick Hill, emeritus professor of Spanish and Latin American literature at Fairfield University, was drawn to Port Townsend, Washington, by the poetry of the place. During his tenure he authored numerous scholarly articles on Latin American poetry and theatre and was granted several fellowships and grants, the last being as an NYU Faculty Resource Network Visiting scholar.
Also a translator, Hill's rendering of Biography of a Runaway Slave, as well as two other novels were published by curbstone Press and he has translated many poems for various U.S. reviews and journals. His versions of poems from Mexican poet Jorge Fern ández Granados's Principle of Uncertainty have come out in Literal, eXchanges, and Mid-American Review where the translation chapbook "Constructed on Coincidence" was a feature of the 2010 30th anniversary issue.
The Americas Review, The Bilingual Review, and others have published Hill's bilingual and Spanish-language poems. Mundane Rights/Ritos Mundanos, his bilingual chapbook, was a finalist in the 1997 Sow's Ear Poetry Review chapbook contest.
Hill was the Port Townsend Farmers Market manager for two years and served on its board of directors until 2010. Among the plants in his garden is saffron, the golden spice.
Author City: PORT TOWNSEND, WA USA