Poetry. "What Bogart was to crime flicks, Nielsen is to postmodern poetry—a conscience and a court jester by turns. Rueful comedy, at once spacey and rigorous, very funny. Read this book if it's the first thing you do."—David Bromige

Stepping Razor

Literature & Fiction

Nielsen, A.L.

Poetry

Edge Books

Poetry. VEXT is the most extensive poetry collection to date by the author of STEPPING RAZOR (Aerial/Edge), HEAT STRINGS (available from SPD) and EVACUATION ROUTES. And finally, for a real treat, we can bring you our special millenarian cult with fustian topping, served over a chilled apothecary, surrounded by variegated virgules and smothered in venom. (Our Specials) Nielsen is also the author of the acclaimed critcal works READING RACE, WRITING BETWEEN THE LINES, and BLACK CHANT. He is Professor of Literature and Writing at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles.

Vext

Sink Press

In A Brand New Beggar, poetry has the walking blues. A. L. Nielsen again pursues what Oliver Nelson called "the blues and the abstract truth," parsing the sundry moods of blues travelers, whether in flight or riding the rails. These lines dig deep in the American grain to remind us of who we are, and who we might be.

A Brand New Beggar

Steerage Press

Poetry. "With TRAY, Aldon Nielsen establishes himself as a formidable voice among American poets. And voice, his forte and bete noire, articulates social criticism as aesthetic form. The incantations of religious and secular crusades are rendered in the eponymous opening poem as live scratching by a deejay (call him History, or God): Gangster Zimmerman as another wanna-be gangsta. And in the poems that constitute Escamotage, the second half of the book, Nielsen's penchant for puns, jokes and blues whimsy are offset by a deft lyricism that is, by turns, poignant (Interval is a touching homage to Lucille Clifton's The Lost Baby Poem), humorous (Clarence Farmer's Complaint) and celebratory (Experimental Hope). The common senses and uncommon sense delineated as TRAY will be balm for our new dark age."—Tyrone Williams "These days we're trying to save us. These are some good poems about that."—Rod Smith

Tray

Make Now Press

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Stepping Razor

Vext

A Brand New Beggar

Tray