J.D. Nelson

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J. D. Nelson (b. 1971) is the author of eleven chapbooks and e-books of poetry, including purgatorio (wlovolw, 2024).

in ghostly onehead (Post-Asemic Press, 2022) is his first full-length collection.

Nelson’s poetry is greatly influenced by Dada and Surrealism, and also by the developments of the Beat writers, especially Jack Kerouac’s spontaneous prose technique and the cut-up technique pioneered by William S. Burroughs. Most of his poems are created through the cutting up and collaging of his own freewriting. Nelson also writes haiku and senryū in English.

His poem, “to mask a little bird” was nominated for Best of the Net in 2021. Four of his haiku were nominated for The Haiku Foundation 2023 Touchstone Award for Individual Poems.

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in ghostly onehead

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Cinderella City

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The Frankendelphia Experiment

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Flavored Instant Pussy

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On The Toad

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Roman Meal

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purgatorio

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When the Sea Dies

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J.D.’s Recent Updates

Pythagoras
“As long as Man continues to be the ruthless destroyer of lower living beings, he will never know health or peace. For as long as men massacre animals, they will kill each other. Indeed, he who sows the seed of murder and pain cannot reap joy and love.”
Pythagoras

Jack Kerouac
“Walking on water wasn't built in a day.”
Jack Keroac

Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
“You want to know something? We are still in the Dark Ages. The Dark Ages--they haven't ended yet.”
Kurt Vonnegut, Deadeye Dick

William S. Burroughs
“This is a war universe. War all the time. That is its nature. There may be other universes based on all sorts of other principles, but ours seems to be based on war and games. All games are basically hostile. Winners and losers. We see them all around us: the winners and the losers. The losers can oftentimes become winners, and the winners can very easily become losers. ”
William S. Burroughs

William S. Burroughs
“You were not there for the beginning. You will not be there for the end. Your knowledge of what is going on can only be superficial and relative”
William S. Burroughs, Naked Lunch: The Restored Text

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