Melanie Nicholson

Tell Somebody

Arts & Literature

“The poet sees, hears, feels, remembers, and answers the call to ‘tell somebody.’ These are poems of nostalgia for a city with streets ‘where paradise was felt,’ poems of rage toward the empire with its ‘conquest, wars / greed, stories, legislators, judges,’ poems of bewilderment at ‘the intolerable silence / of God.’ But ultimately, they are poems of love for the disinherited and hope for a light to shine again in the ‘earth-shattering darkness’ of the present.”