{"product_id":"after-after-thoughts-york-iii-van-nixon-9798993661018","title":"After After Thoughts: A Collection of Poems","description":"\u003cb\u003eForeword\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eAfter After Thoughts\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eby York Van Nixon III\u003cbr\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eAfter After Thoughts\u003c\/i\u003e, York Van Nixon III gathers the residue of time-what remains after the storm, after the bloom, after the breath-and renders it luminous. Each poem inhabits that fragile space between exhale and inhale, where silence hums with the memory of sound and existence reconsiders its shape.\u003cbr\u003eThe collection unfolds like a spiral rather than a line, echoing its title's recursion. Nixon's voice travels through elemental cycles-birth, decay, return-revealing that the \"after\" is never an ending, but a reawakening. The womb becomes water, the breath becomes drumbeat, and even the ashes of memory whisper their way back into light.\u003cbr\u003eAcross these pages, time is not an arrow but a tide. It folds upon itself in poems such as \u003ci\u003ePrimal Scream Again\u003c\/i\u003e, where creation is both beginning and echo; \u003ci\u003eAhead the Moon\u003c\/i\u003e, where mortality bends toward grace; and \u003ci\u003eLate Blooms\u003c\/i\u003e, where age flowers defiantly against dusk. The poems breathe as one continuum, each stanza a pulse in the body of the eternal.\u003cbr\u003eVan Nixon's language is sculpted from music, dance and meditation. He fuses modern awareness with ancient rhythm-African, spiritual, cosmic. His syntax drifts between the corporeal and the celestial, weaving sound into silence, and silence into revelation. Every metaphor becomes a reflection: of ancestry, of art, of the soul's persistence through time's dissolving frame.\u003cbr\u003eThere is grief here, yes-but it is the fertile grief of transformation. Each image, whether it be a trembling petal or a sigh between lovers, is reborn in the next line, transfigured yet familiar. To read these poems is to step inside a continuous breath-to inhabit the stillness that precedes creation and follows remembrance.\u003cbr\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eAfter After Thoughts\u003c\/i\u003e, York Van Nixon III invites us to dwell not in the beginning or the end, but in the shimmering threshold between. It is there-in the hum before words, in the silence after song-that we find the eternal rhythm of being.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e York III Van Nixon\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798993661018\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e York Van Nixon III\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 12\/04\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 144\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.44lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.34d","brand":"York III Van Nixon","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48443114258687,"sku":"9798993661018","price":9.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_c227d0c5-9eb2-43e9-960d-2d9a27169d1b.jpg?v=1777201943","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/after-after-thoughts-york-iii-van-nixon-9798993661018","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}