Open Books: Events
January 24, 2010 03:00 PM
PAUL E. NELSON
Over nearly 15 years, Paul Nelson researched, wrote, and lived his epic poem on the town of Auburn, Washington, once named Slaughter after
an early military officer. The result is A Time
Before Slaughter ($12.95 Apprentice House), an enlightening, feisty, loving representation of a place -- part history, part praise song, part cry for what has been lost. Written in both prose and tumbling, haiku-like poetry, the book invokes the eternal by evoking the passing specific -- "Slaughter is jet noise / what sends herons flapping / downstream above the Stuck."
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