Olson's first book of new poetry in sixteen years. Human Nature is
the poet and novelist Toby Olson's first book of new poetry since
We Are the Fire (New Directions, 1984). The intervening years saw
five of his novels published to strong critical acclaim. "But,"
says Olson, "one day I woke from fiction to discover I'd not
written a poem in close to ten years. How to return to poetry after
being away from it so long?" Certainly not in repetition of things
done before. In Human Nature, Olson joins the novelist's art to the
poet's reflections of friends and events and times gone by. When
memory fades, replaced by story, the reader of these remarkable
narrative meditations begins to realize the ways in which poetry
might disclose different truths, born of the reinvention of
experience. "In Human Nature," says Olson, "even the most
autobiographical poems let fiction in."
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