Learning to Miss
Learning to Miss opens with imagery of events, moments, that dream into, and imagine beyond “getting on with it.” Imagining, in the next group, holds the love and empathy of an aging, experienced, self-aware observer, while the final group works some family history into the movie I make of my past, as I direct and act, having learned to miss, not kill … to let live, “slant,” by art.
Paul Nelson, for years Professor/Director of Creative Writing for Ohio University, is the author of numerous books, including Days Off, an AWP Winner, and The Hard Shapes Of Paradise, a University of Alabama Press Series Selection. Sea Level appeared in 2008 with Main Street Publishing, and a chapbook, I Brought Her Juicy, Thin-Skinned Lemons, with Finishing Line Press in 2012. He edits Kaimana, Hawaii’s state funded literary magazine. A National Endowment for the Arts Fellow, he writes from Mokule’ia on the North Shore of O’ahu.
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