Base Camp: Poems

Nolan, Steve

ISBN 10: 1933974346 / ISBN 13: 9781933974347

Published by Ragged Sky Press (edition ), 2019

About this Item

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Base Camp: Poems
• Publisher: Ragged Sky Press (edition )
• Publication Date: 2019
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1933974346
• ISBN 13: 9781933974347
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: Very Good

About this title

Synopsis

The poems in Base Camp take us from the steep slopes of Mt. Everest to the darkness where thirty-three Chilean miners are trapped. With an insistent empathy born of passion, trauma, and illness, Nolan's poems reach out to women making their daily trek for water and to an ice-trapped whale, from a medic tending the wounded in the range of fire to an abused three-year-old hiding in shadows. Written with a directness that does not indulge in distracting pyrotechnics of obscurity, these poems invite us "home/to the repository of music: the human heart."

About the Author

Steve Nolan did his undergraduate work at the University of Miami in English and Psychology and his masters at Barry University, in clinical social work, also in Miami, Florida. He is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker who spent 25 years as a therapist and 30 years in the military ending his career as the Chief of Combat Stress for Paktika Province in Afghanistan. He ran a PTSD clinic for the VA for five years before moving to Newtown in 2015. His work has been published in: Passages North, U.S. 1 Worksheets, Florida Review, Woodrider, Devil's Millhopper Press, Gypsy (Amnesty International Edition), Schuylkill Valley Journal and others. His poems were featured on Morning Edition, National Public Radio, 24 September 2007 upon his return from Afghanistan in a story called, "Mother, Son Share Experiences of War." He is the author of Go Deep, a collaboration with the artist NJ DeVico.