Böcker av Kathy Nelson

He knows that she's been a bad girl. He sees all those dirty little fantasies. And now he's going to claim her as his mate. When the failed delivery of an ominous package gets Aline in big trouble, she's forced to run. But her escape leads her right into the arms of a mysterious dominant stranger who's willing to fix her problems. In exchange, she just has to agree to be his... forever. But Aline really should have asked more questions before saying yes. She's not just going home with a wealthy Dominant, she's going home with the personification of punishment himself. Krampus. The Krampus Collective Once he was a solitary immortal. A creature out of nightmares. The embodiment of punishment. As humanity grew and spread across the globe, he split apart to keep the balance. Now there are twelve. Connected but individual, they carry out the duties of Krampus by punishing the wicked. The tears and cries of pain from their victims sustain them. But this year is different. It's time for each of them to choose a mate. To find that one naughty sinner who fits their unique preferences. For the first time their discipline will be tempered with mercy and care. They have one year to find love with the human they choose. One year to convince that mate to stay. One year to punish, train, and cherish. Each story will stand alone. Every book will be unique.

"Why remember the dead?" poet Kathy Nelson begins this sobering meditation, a descent and rise through what's lost and sometimes found again, her keen eye on the natural world, her mother in the Bardo and in life, both trouble and love restored, unshakable grief, regret, triumph, mystery... And why exactly? Because we need these poems as lens, as touchstone. And such lovely, startling interventions of language and image! Vivid detail, layer upon layer-say, a "landscape stitched with fencerows," or to hold a breath "until someone unlocks the door." That someone is this most remarkable poet. "Last night," Nelson writes, "I found a hidden stairway leading down/into a maze of rooms ..." And what a rewarding gift for all of us, to follow her there. -Marianne Boruch, Bestiary Dark

Whose Names Have Slipped Away, published by Finishing Line Press, is poet Kathy Nelson's second chapbook collection of poems. The poems in this collection are meditations on nature observed through the lens of relationship and through the universal experience of impermanence. Poet Tina Barr says that "Kathy Nelson's work ministers to the deep places within us; she explores difficult interpersonal arenas with conviction and courage." Editor and poet Nancy Dillingham calls Kathy Nelson's poems "brilliant distillations of moments in nature … (that) mirror, and become metaphor for, the eternal struggles between daughters and mothers."