Nathaniel Bellows

Why Speak?

Poems

“A smart and powerful debut.”—Library Journal

“Gripping.... Why Speak? extends [Bellows’s] fascination with childhood to a variety of landscapes, from a strangely disembodied farm to the paintings of Winslow Homer. The poems tell stories, but the book’s power depends on the slow accumulation of an inner world.”—James Longenbach, New York Times Book Review


Nathaniel Bellows is the author of the novel On This Day. He lives in New York City.

Why Speak? book jacket

July 2008 / paperback / ISBN 978-0-393-33138-7
6 1/8" x 8 1/4" / 96 pages / Poetry


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