Poetry. Paper, Perfect Bound. 40 pages - 2024, ISBN: 978-1-952781-22-3 - $ 18.95+ S&H
- For over sixty years, David Michael Nixon has worked and played at poetry. He has had six collections published, four small, two full-length. David's work has been mostly as a self-employed housecleaner, yardworker, artists' model, poet, and singer. By reading and hearing many poets, writing and performing his own poems, and being part of poetry, music, and peace communities, he has developed his art. "A Wolf Comes to My Window" collects some of his tiny poems, each three lines or less. A rabid badger, black castanets, the aardvark dark, when dandelions roar--see how these poems become small worlds.…
Poetry. Paper, Perfect Bound. 92 pages 2022, ISBN: 978-1-952781-11-7 ///
Animals, horses, dogs, cats, and visiting wildlife are the gifts that bring me great joy, and so they appear in my poetry. Even rats and skunks are worthy of my poetry. As for humans, I focus on the downtrodden, and those living in slums and hollows---not to forget those living in our iron cities, our prisons. I mourn the deteriorating condition of the planet. I mock those who have elitism and greed at the center of their lives. I also poke fun at myself especially my struggles with aging. In terms of style, I try to balance the trend toward narrative with my love for the early imagists.…
Poetry. Paper, Perfect Bound. 72 pages 2020, ISBN: 978-1-936419-95-1 $17.95 + S&H Note: You don’t have to have a PayPal account in order to use the PayPal button, just a credit card. What Is in the Blood is a poetry memoir about growing up in rural Pennsylvania in the 1960s and ‘70s with a bipolar…
