This Party of the Soft Things - Nhatt Nichols

This Party of the Soft Things by Nhatt Nichols / 80-page paperback with flaps, 4.7 x 6.7 inches, published by Bored Wolves (Poland) / ISBN 9788396262028 *** “Nhatt’s book provides the reader with a sense of presence and urgency, welcoming the need to be wild-eyed and hopeful, too. It reminds us that nature speaks up in multitude, and that there is simply no real silencing it.” —Sara Dian “This gentle, quietly heartbroken illustrated poem follows a walk in the woods through its beauty and sadness, unearthing pill bugs, lamenting human desecration, and extolling the explosion of lilacs that will follow long after human beings have scrubbed themselves from this planet.” —John Porcellino "I angle home / my neighbors on their porches with wine / my old mailbox / it isn’t a lot / but I already miss it" Once upon a time, Nhatt Nichols, a poet and graphic journalist working out of a hut on the Olympic Peninsula, followed forest paths in search of the sea and something resembling clarity, ev