Bøger af Carl Nelson

Poems taken from a current life of moseying around a small Ohio river town.

Poems of American culture and politics, stage and street, city and country, secular and sacred. Lots of quotable material.

"Losing weight is hard. Most diet plans will work, if people could just continue the discipline. What The Poet's Weight Loss Plan does differently is to conceive of weight loss in terms of the discipline required and to peel the banana from the other end. We start with the amount of discipline that the average person has shown they can sustain and design a weight loss plan from there. What most people want in a weight loss program is to continue eating as they currently eat and to lose weight as fast as is possible. The Poet's Weight Loss Plan is our closest approximation to this."

As the mystery unfolds, the dark players who have put Kimmel, Washington in the national spotlight make themselves apparent. Who will rule the human future? And what can Sheriff Leland Kelly and his ad hoc band of citizens do to protect Kimmel?

A look at marriage with a poet's eye through a buffet of essays and poems addressing love, fidelity, marital strategies, casting, practical aspects, marital privacy, cultural realities, finances, in-laws, outlaws, and zones of hypocognition. Kleenex not included.

A full-length comedy for six actors, which would be fine for any adult audience. The story, which will include a death, an angel, a psychiatrist, and a randy older man, begins when Bernice - Claude and Bert's mother - picks up a stranger at the airport and brings him home for her 85th birthday celebration. This is Herb Bottleman. And when Herb goes for Bert's trophy wife, Jackie, events spiral quickly up and out of control.

OLLIE, 84, awakes one day to find his shoes wrapped and waiting under the Christmas tree. He takes this as a 'suggestion', and wandering away from his assisted care facility finds himself in Fitzgeralds, an upscale hotel bar, where he immediately takes a shine to NIKI, who is waiting there for her boyfriend, PAUL to show. OLLIE decides to woo her. While talking with OLLIE, NIKI lets it drop that she is pregnant. OLLIE offers to marry her. PAUL, the father, who arrives late, is hesitant to get married. OLLIE's wit and ardor battle with PAUL's youth and arrogance for the heart of NIKI.

Harry Coombs, sixty, and the top copier salesman in his metropolitan area, has suffered a right side stroke. In order to hang on to his job in a rough, competitive business he hires Claude Gustafson, airy poet, and son of an old war buddy to assist him. Harry is forced into the role of mentor and Claude is forced more and more into the full-time role of copier salesman as both struggle to keep their livelihoods and lives, on track. It's a full-length comedy/drama in two acts with 5 actors... full of personal growth, sales instruction, human vitriol and affection.

Poems of rumination, verbal play, assonance, dissonance, alliteration, silliness and sadness, over topics of all sorts from Dumbo to Oscar Wilde.

A field of essays sown with every sort of odd thought and nurtured lovingly by its solitary, somewhat irascible author. He discusses using bugs as models, isolation chambers, the nihilistic tendencies of rational thought, moss, theater, art, good books, success and failure, Christianity, middle school textbooks, trash cans, getting justice, ballooning government, medical care costs, Christmas, adoption, fasting. The list continues. By the end of it you'll think you know a lot.

The Advisor happens to be set during the Vietnam War, but its message is universally applicable -- the characters could be State Department, Peace Corps, or soldiers in Bosnia.What sets The Advisor apart from many other novels written about Vietnam? This provocative story deals with the complexities of being an advisor to foreigners in wartime: a clash of cultures, combat action and political intrigue. Played out through Viet Cong as well as American and South Vietnamese characters, the book narrates both sides of that strange war.More than just an action-adventure story, The Advisor is driven by historical intrigue, gripping drama, and haunting romance suffused with the mystery and seduction of the orient.It begins in the summer of 1972, the last year of the war, before the U.S. military left South Vietnam, and ends in 1975 when the last Americans are evacuated. This metaphoric novel challenges the Domino Theory -- the premise of the Vietnam War, while spinning a tale of protecting the Long Tau Channel, the most strategic waterway in the campaign.Commander Blake Lawrence, a blue water sailor, is unwillingly thrust into the Rung Sal Special Zone, a place he does not want to be, among a people whose culture he doesn't understand, and a kind of war he is unprepared to fight. As the Senior Advisor, he struggles to sort out several moral dilemmas: Will he be court-martialed and lose his destroyer command? Who is correct -- his boss, Rear Adm. Paulson, or his Vietnamese counterpart, Captain Duc-Lang? The ethics of dealing with guerrillas. What should he do about the women in his life -- his wife, Beverly, who is fed-up with Navy life, and the temptation of infidelity withseductive Peg Thompson? What's more important -- a North Vietnamese Colonel named Tu or the Russian AT3 rockets, his integrity of his destroyer command? What's the war about -- Communism or Dynastics?At the end of the book, we find Blake back at sea in command of a destroyer, where he witnesses the final American withdrawal in 1975. We learn what happened after his days as an advisor, and why he is invited to return to fight.

The Advisor happens to be set during the Vietnam War, but its message is universally applicable -- the characters could be State Department, Peace Corps, or soldiers in Bosnia.What sets The Advisor apart from many other novels written about Vietnam? This provocative story deals with the complexities of being an advisor to foreigners in wartime: a clash of cultures, combat action and political intrigue. Played out through Viet Cong as well as American and South Vietnamese characters, the book narrates both sides of that strange war.More than just an action-adventure story, The Advisor is driven by historical intrigue, gripping drama, and haunting romance suffused with the mystery and seduction of the orient.It begins in the summer of 1972, the last year of the war, before the U.S. military left South Vietnam, and ends in 1975 when the last Americans are evacuated. This metaphoric novel challenges the Domino Theory -- the premise of the Vietnam War, while spinning a tale of protecting the Long Tau Channel, the most strategic waterway in the campaign.Commander Blake Lawrence, a blue water sailor, is unwillingly thrust into the Rung Sal Special Zone, a place he does not want to be, among a people whose culture he doesn't understand, and a kind of war he is unprepared to fight. As the Senior Advisor, he struggles to sort out several moral dilemmas: Will he be court-martialed and lose his destroyer command? Who is correct -- his boss, Rear Adm. Paulson, or his Vietnamese counterpart, Captain Duc-Lang? The ethics of dealing with guerrillas. What should he do about the women in his life -- his wife, Beverly, who is fed-up with Navy life, and the temptation of infidelity withseductive Peg Thompson? What's more important -- a North Vietnamese Colonel named Tu or the Russian AT3 rockets, his integrity of his destroyer command? What's the war about -- Communism or Dynastics?At the end of the book, we find Blake back at sea in command of a destroyer, where he witnesses the final American withdrawal in 1975. We learn what happened after his days as an advisor, and why he is invited to return to fight.

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