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In his first poetry collection, Learning to Love, Nick Harris focuses on his own and Everyman’s attempt to find enduring love despite its fragility. He portrays the impermanence of relationships in the face of wanderlust and insecurity, but he also portrays a compelling urge to return, to cross thresholds left behind. In this short but expansive volume, Nick Harris’ odyssey and final victory is that of all men who remain true to their instinct for union with a loved one, a woman who has remained constant in the manner of Homer’s Penelope. And as in The Odyssey or Eliot’s "Wasteland," water (in this case, the blessing of rain in a parched land) is a necessary medium for homecoming. In the end, not even death has dominion over love, whose power is greater than all the perils that bedevil it. About the book, Holly J. Hughes, author of Boxing the Compass, has written as follows:
Nick Harris was born in Kampala, Uganda, and subsequently lived in Lebanon, Greece, and India, while intermittently spending time on his father’s farm in Northwest Washington State. He has studied woodcarving in Greece and sitar in India, and is a recent graduate of Seattle University’s Creative Writing Program. He lives with his ex-wife and grandson, to whom they have dedicated their lives. He is a Peer Support Specialist in the mental health field. Click here to read a sample from Learning to Love |
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BOOK STATISTICS ISBN 978-0-9843418-4-9 Copyright © 2010 by Nick Harris 5.5" x 8.5" chapbook/pamphlet, 28 pages
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