Paul Naylor

Not Quite Noon Paul Naylor

Poetry. Here are two strikingly metaphysical poems set twenty years apart in the Wind River Wilderness of Wyoming. Working through a long tradition of Zen practice, poetry, and meditative walking, Paul Naylor has wrought poems that feel to your hands and feet like trails twisting around scree and talus. Each step is a carefully crafted philosophy made of words as much as rock. At night the stars wheel so close and mythically overhead you can reach up and touch their sharp edges. How do twenty years pass? What does a coyote or grizzly bear do at night? Where do the dead go? NOT QUITE NOON gives a hint.--Andrew Schelling