Please Hold - Nelson, Muriel
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In Please Hold there's melody, jazzy dissonance, flashes of tonal change, freshness of sound and image. Consider "hummingbirds/ buzz like balloons' loose lips," and "what if/ from the ugliest mouth on the corner, love stuck/out its bent lightning tongue?" As old Bruce in "Sonnet on Air" says, "only motion and cognition matter." Please Hold is full of both, its music alive with the snicker of oboes, inspired puns, silvery thuds, cries and laughter, pain and disconcerting beauty. -Patricia Corbus, winner of the 2015 Off the Grid Poetry prize for Finestra's Window * * * Please Hold's scintillant…mehr

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In Please Hold there's melody, jazzy dissonance, flashes of tonal change, freshness of sound and image. Consider "hummingbirds/ buzz like balloons' loose lips," and "what if/ from the ugliest mouth on the corner, love stuck/out its bent lightning tongue?" As old Bruce in "Sonnet on Air" says, "only motion and cognition matter." Please Hold is full of both, its music alive with the snicker of oboes, inspired puns, silvery thuds, cries and laughter, pain and disconcerting beauty. -Patricia Corbus, winner of the 2015 Off the Grid Poetry prize for Finestra's Window * * * Please Hold's scintillant wit and virtuoso imagination enliven and mourn pandemic's hermitage, its "slow kind of rain." When "you've gone a bit crazy...sequestered," "touch and go" have lost their meanings, when fear "thumbs glissandos/up your bone xylophone," gargoyles grow eloquent, God "contours love with dark," and truth produces its green heresies: "When we fall sick, the teeter totters, and weeds inherit the earth." As rumors and lies surround us, these eclectic, ethical poems push back-"it's a shady business, so here come the pines." -Eleanor Wilner, winner of the Robert Frost Medal for lifetime achievement
Autorenporträt
Muriel Nelson's publications include Part Song (Bear Star Press, Dorothy Brunsman Poetry Prize) and Most Wanted (ByLine Press, ByLine Chapbook Award). Nominated five times for the Pushcart Prize, Nelson's poems have appeared in Beloit Poetry Journal, Guesthouse, Hayden's Ferry Review, Hunger Mountain, New American Writing, Ploughshares, Smartish Pace, and others, as well as in several anthologies. Two of her poems have been set to music. She holds master's degrees from the University of Illinois School of Music and the MFA Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College, and she lives with her husband in Federal Way, Washington. All her life she's enjoyed music and digging in dirt, most recently to challenge our political leaders and her small garden to do more for those who have less.