A Patient Desire: New Poems

By Timothy Nonn

Book Overview

This first gathering of lyrical works from poet Tim Nonn's journey into his oncoming blindness is sometimes beautiful, other times astonishingly wise. When he says 'going blind/is another way/of seeing/the heart clearly,' he accepts the dare of kinship with Rumi and Basho, Roethke and Bly, a lineage of mystics and, perhaps ironically, seers. His unrhymed quatrains, deceptively simple, are fully armed with axioms: 'knowing is impossible/you must feel your way/into your heart/and get lost.' And his mastery of simple means as an approach to the ineffable is always in effect, as when 'in the presence/of a tree/stillness/is a conversation' or 'an evening song/of a bird facing darkness/had the lonely clarity/of one in love with light.' One in love with the light indeed. Here Tim Nonn welcomes you and it is likely you will find yourself happily entranced.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0692842721
• ISBN13: 9780692842720
• Release Date: March 2017
• Publisher: McCaa Books
• Length: 178 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.0" x 8.0"