Things I Didn't Know I Loved Author|John Wasowicz have always demanded the poetics

have always demanded the poetics of citizenship of another world within

I Am the Ocean is a story of beginning to let the light shine through the cracks

" But also for "every beloved thing that kneels and drinks

author of Ecology of a Cracker Childhood (Milkweed Editions)

Things I Didn't Know I Loved Author|John Wasowicz have always demanded the poeticsTim Nolan's new collection reacquaints us with his quizzical perspective on the world of day to day events and ideas. The poems twist and turn through reveries devoted to cars passing on the freeway, a pair of blue socks, room service, Abraham Lincoln, or an album of wedding photos. In several poems an aura of nostalgia is present which is less a yearning for past times than a questioning reappraisal of what was really going on back then. In one poem,