Ahead Of Evening

By Rodney Nelson

In "Mission," the first poem in Rodney Nelson's collection Ahead of Evening, the speaker recalls traveling with a band of pilgrims on a southwestern plateau, "wanting to reach a town/ and meet" an inspirational figure, who is now seen as having been a mere "panjandrum"; and in the title poem, after watching the stealthy juncos of October, he chooses to "act fugitive too" in his charcoal gray, "as if/ a trick would detain the light." Ahead of Evening is full of such instances, all making themselves known against a western American backdrop (except for one poem that looks in on Robert Lowell's kitchen).

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1523619643
• ISBN13: 9781523619641
• Release Date: June 2016
• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Length: 78 Pages
• Weight: 0.37 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 0.2" x 6.0"