My first book of poetry. These were mostly composed in 2014-2015; a few revised before republication in 2016. The mood was political. Some of the poems from that period that I rejected for this volume struck me as too strongly condemnatory, pieces of the moment, that I didn’t like well enough coming back to them after several months. Nutshell is slim, but meaty, 48 pages total.
From The Nutshell Hatches comes a new series, Jumping Off, where I take the last line, or part of it, from each of my first thirty-six poems, and make it the title of a new poem, with a certain thematic link.