From Circus Town, USA: Poems

By Vivian Finley Nida

In her first collection of poems, Vivian Finley Nida shows us how much the smallest moments hold. She says, "There's beauty in the bond/between elephants and humans/especially during daily bath." Raised in Hugo, Oklahoma, winter quarters for several circuses, Nida's childhood stories are funny, intuitive, and heartrending snapshots. "One percent of my income/is from lemonade/the rest/from charity," she says.

Always, Nida invites us into nature. Whether at the family cabin in rural Oklahoma on the lake, her elegant observations abound. "We breathe/secure as dry leaves/shaking on branches," she says. Nida understands how the ordinary and transcendent mesh in the pain and pleasure of everyday life.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1934923311
• ISBN13: 9781934923313
• Release Date: November 2019
• Publisher: Village Books Press
• Length: 90 Pages
• Weight: 0.27 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 5.5" x 8.5"