I'm Here Because I Lost My Way

Poetry. "In Neil Shepard's moving and delicate new collection, nature's quietly shimmering veil resonates with those few moments of true human grace any of us are allowed. These poems are filled with the same passion and deft humor we've come to expect from all of Neil Shepard's marvelous work"-David St. John. The poems in I'M HERE BECAUSE I LOST MY WAY treat life and death alike with an unflinchingly critical, but nonetheless poignant, approach: "...what number// fall down man-holes, what number/ crack skulls on black ice-/ where blood in Rorshach// puddles is anyone's guess./ What number ends this/ numbness? One" ("The News"). Neil Shepard's first collection, SCAVENGING THE COUNTRY FOR A HEARTBEAT, won the 1992 First Series Award for Poetry, sponsored by Mid-List Press. He teaches in the department of Writing and Literature at Johnson State College in Johnson, Vermont.

"In Neil Shepard's moving and delicate new collection, nature's quietly shimmering veil resonates with those few moments of true human grace any of us are allowed. These poems are filled with the same passion and deft humor we've come to expect from all of Neil Shepard's marvelous work." David St. John "Neil Shepard writes essential, elegant poems. As much about recovery as loss of any kind, this work is rich with evocations and layers, a stunning interplay of language and scenes." Naomi Shihab Nye"

After You Left, I Thought Of Something Else I Wanted
Amusement Park: Early History Of The Writer
Birdsongs At The Edge Of Vanishing
Chameleon
Comanche Peak
Crows
December Myth
Dramatics
Dreamless Songs: 1
Dreamless Songs: 2
Dreamless Songs: 3
Dreamless Songs: 4
Dreamless Songs: 5
Dreamless Songs: 6
Easter Lights
Epistrophy
Equator Daze
Following In The Footsteps Of Melville
The Fountain
Ghost Talk
God Is A Door
Going Down To Moses
Green
I'm Here Because I Lost My Way
Lake Katherine
Last Naturalist
Late Correspondence
Learning To Ride The Train
The Light Leap Of The Dead
Listening To Samuel Barber's
Long Distance
Lush Life
Marquesas
Moon In Fog
Mule Deer In The Pecos
Music Lesson
The News
Nightshift At The Halfway House
November Oracle
Ode To A Black Bug That Will Not Die
Ogunquit
On The Coldest Day Of November We Tee Up At The Frozen Water Hole
One Peoples
Pain Produces Logic, Which Is Very Bad For You
Sailor On Leave Suffocates In Sand
Tremor
Tropical Moment
Wake Up Laughing
White Cloud Receding
Wild Edibles
Yesterday's News
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