Coming Soon from STEERAGE PRESS -
A BRAND NEW BEGGAR
poems by A.L. Nielsen
"A. L. Nielsen is at it again, lighting fireworks under language and capturing the explosions on paper. These poems' short, deeply enjambed lines will work your brains as much as your eyes. Using every sonic trick in the book -- including assonance, consonance, and insistent rhythms -- Nielsen stitches together places from Ghana to Nebraska, people from C.L.R. James to Lady Day, and moments from his childhood through his capacious present. Readers of his earlier books will recognize the wicked wit he often turns on politics and culture and will warm to the less familiar (but characteristically wordplay-ful) love poems he includes. Here is a poet who knows what he can do with the genre, and does it -- well."
Evie Shockley
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