"I have so few books of poetry I want to bring to this program [Nashville Public Television's "A Word on Words"]. The best way I know to let our readers know just how impressed I was, and touched by it, and hooked on it is to read some of it--I wish we could read all of it--but we only have a half-hour!"
--John Seigenthaler,
founder of the First Amendment Center; publisher emeritus of The Tennessean newspaper; and host of Nashville Public Television's "A Word on Words"--interview with Nevin Compton Trammell
Uniquely accessible to readers from ages 5 to 90, Nevin Compton Trammell's work has been compared to the likes of Shel Silverstein, Langston Hughes, e.e. cummings, and Jack Kerouac. As critic Holly Gleason noted, Trammell’s bluesy, confessional poetry is “refreshing in its directness, comforting in its clarity and evocation, healing in the mirror it holds up to our souls.”
This is poetry that even adults can learn by heart . . .
The only
thing
that kept me
from falling
down the
well
was I tripped
sideways
when I
fell
