The Winter King and Queen

About the Book

“Stanley Nelson explodes poetic form. His words seem to be moving away from each other like galaxies in an expanding universe. This is the most radical opening up of poetic form
since Walt Whitman’s Leaves of Grass. Nelson is one of those defining figures, one of those who defines an age, not only for his contemporaries, but for posterity.”

About the Author

Stanley Nelson, recipient of the Thomas Wolfe Poetry Award, is the author of 18 volumes of poetry, and his poems have appeared in over 50 publications. Immigrant, an epic poem in four volumes, has been hailed as "one of the most important books of the second half of the twentieth century". Nelson is also a prolific novelist and playwright. A book of experimental fiction, The Unknowable Light of the Alien, received the Small Press Book of the Year award from Library Journal. There have been over 100 productions of his plays in New York, London, and in college and community theatres throughout the US. His play, Poe: From his Life and Mind, was cited in Best Plays of 1971, and was given a national college tour by the New York Touring Company. Stanley Nelson revels in words. He explores the edges of sound and sense, with a blend of humor and seriousness, in a style all of his own.