The Fist of Remembering

By: Jim Nason

April 2006
96 pages | ISBN 978-1-894987-07-3
$17.00

The Fist of Remembering is a collection of poetry that starts with death and ends with life. Nason begins with the death of his partner from cancer, and then weaves through his experience, remembering, grieving, and celebrating his love following the death. These poems are breath-taking, moving from despair to hope, and from austerity to the rediscovery of sensuality. They are filled with elegant, and sometimes wry turns of phrase and memorable imagery. This is a beautiful collection.

Breakfast

If you’re going to walk tall, walk big.
Toast is burning
and I am Proust somewhere in the fist of remembering.
Kiss and taste you in the morning.
Peaches and oatmeal, toasted sunflower seed.
Grief like skin in the apple of my teeth.