Blue Nocturne

Poety. Caring, precise, intelligent, profound—these beautifully crafted poems come out of the poet's flesh and blood literally steaming as if freshly skinned. The book is powerful and spooky and lovely all at the same time.

"I'm writing about it because / I may have stopped believing / it ever existed for me;" W. Nick Hill asks us to be careful and exuberant in our devotions. From the formal elegance of the hexagrams to the free form linguistic celebration of poems like 'Night, The Daily Refuge,' Blue Nocturne is a deeply conscious meditation on the relationship between action and consequence. Like a caravan these poems bear their gifts one page after another toward a truly restorative wisdom."—Gary Lemons