This Once: Poems 1976-1996

by Nick Bozanic

Poetry. Nick Bozanic has found a way back into the realm of the natural world in his new book, no easy task for poets this late in the century. Mr. Bozanic has managed a remarkable balance. The result is a luminous world that emerges naturally from the drama these poems yearn to share with us. "None of this would have been possible if the proper music were not also always present. Mr. Bozanic has the ear of an angel, and understands prosody as a range of musical options that will allow him to guide the reader through his poems in a way that enables us to feel . Form never feels forced or strained. These poems are seamless that way, and seamless too in the way the telling is so powerfully akin to the feeling and the doing, and perhaps most importantly, they are unflinchingly faithful to what the poet himself calls that 'urge/that weds all things to all things other'"--Bruce Weigl.

82 pages, Paperback

First published March 1, 1997

Reviews

[Travel Writing · Rating 4 out of 5]

Nick Bozanic is a lovely poet. His words are dense and enticing. I tend to not be impressed with poems with the word 'love' in the title. Silly? Perhaps, but I stand corrected since I am enamored with:

"What we learn of love"

Is to fear the heart
its power and its appetites,
its gravity, which is greater
than the moon's that stirs the blood
in women and turns the seas; which is greater than
the sun's that tugs the earth so gently
toward incandescence.

Find this great little book to read the rest. I just want to keep reading it and not type.