The Infant Scholar

By Kathy Nilsson

Each poem in The Infant Scholar is an homage to those born brilliant and vulnerable, those who carry around with them a great comprehension at odds with their age. These poems are built upon facts and observations unearthed while panning the world for gold: diamonds sewn into the Romanov corsets that deflected bullets, or a lift-off in some early space flight to the moon, with a chimpanzee at the helm; Iphigenia saying goodbye to her beloved daylight, and Edward R. Murrow describing what soldiers heard as they entered prison camps at the end of World War II: "the handclapping of babies."

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1936797542
• ISBN13: 9781936797547
• Release Date: January 2015
• Publisher: Tupelo Press
• Length: 78 Pages
• Weight: 0.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 6.0" x 9.0"