Unnamed: The Emotions: Poems (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780982077504)

Martin Nakell, the author of 12 books, both poetry and fiction, has won the Gertrude Stein Award in poetry, a National Endowment grant, a Fellowship in Poetry from the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, and several other grants and fellowships. He was a finalist for the Ronald Sukenick Award in Fiction, the Americas Award in Fiction, and the National Poetry Award. He was Co-Founder and Co-Director of Ischia Arts: The Program in Creative Writing, is Vice-President of the Suzanne Goodman Center for Literature Art & Cuisine, is a Co-Director of the Institute for the Harmony of Science & Poetics. He sits on the National Board of &NOW. He has worked on various journals and presses, including publishing the short-lived but sterling Jahbone Press. He has worked as a chef, a carpenter, and a paralegal. After studying under Robert Creeley at San Francisco State University, he earned a Doctor of Arts at SUNY Albany under William Dumbleton. He lives in Orange, California, where he teaches experimental writing at Chapman University. By way of the critical reception of his work, Angela Genusa writes, in Mad Hatters Review: "Nakell has achieved something in Settlement that is nearly impossible and would likely be disastrous if undertaken by a less skilled writer...to create a unique and ground-breaking work of literature...celebrating...every human's...primal urge to create something from nothing."