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Learning to Miss opens with imagery of events, moments, that dream into, and imagine beyond "getting on with it." Imagining, in the next group, holds the love and empathy of an aging, experienced, self-aware observer, while the final group works some family history into the movie I make of my past, as I direct and act, having learned to miss, not kill ... to let live, "slant," by art.

The poems in Learning to Miss are a marvel. Whether Paul Nelson is chronicling a journey, describing preparations for slaughtering sheep in Maine, or recounting the habits of a gecko on a Hawaiian wall, his poems ring with authenticity, the hard particularity that derives from sustained, close observation. Then he tells us, "Everything is everything else, all the time," ... and we believe him. — Don Johnson, author of Here and Gone: New and Selected Poems