Seven Poems

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Bug Life
Controlled Substance
Hand in Hand
Idleness
Set Your Filters
Briefly
Liquid Zone
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Pat Nolan was born in Montreal, Canada in 1943, but has lived most of his adult life along the Russian River in Northern California. He is an author, translator, editor, and publisher.
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His poetry and prose have been published in numerous magazines such as Rolling Stone, The Paris Review, The World, Big Bridge, Poetry Flash, and Exquisite Corpse as well as literary magazines in Europe and Asia. His work has also appeared in various anthologies including Up Late, Thus Spake the Corpse, Out of this World, and More Poetry Comics.
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The Random House Book of Twentieth Century French Poetry and include his translations from the French of Surrealist poet Philippe Soupault. Pygmy Forest Press published a selection of his translations of Soupault's early work entitled Where the Four Winds Blow in 1993. He was also the editor and publisher of The End, a '70's literary magazine. He is the founder of The Black Bart Poetry Society, and publisher of its newsletter, Life of Crime.
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He is the author of eleven books of poetry. Tangram Press of Berkeley published a limited, letterpress edition of a selection of his tanka entitled Cloud Scatter in 1992. More recently, Tangram Press brouth out selections from a larger manuscript as a chapbook entitled 4 Poems from Exile In Paradise, and as a handful of poem cards, also in a limited, letterpress edition. Fell Swoop Press of New Orleans issued Volume II of The Nolan Anthology of Poetry: the Modern Era in the spring of 2003.
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Thin Wings (2003) and Untouched by Rain (2005) from Empty Head Press represented a synthesis of art and literarture, or more precisely put, love of art and a lifelong pursuit of literature. The making of a book in an artist's task, the contents belonging to the author. Art provides the circumstance for the poems. Literature accrues weight as an object, an aesthetic object. Each book is individually made: cut, glued, and hand sewn. The poems are original tanka, a Japanese verse form from which haiku was eventually derived.
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