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Rod Nelson |
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Rod Nelson is a native of St. George, Utah, and lived there until he was 21 years of age. In 1960, he entered military service and returned in 1965. He saw it change dramatically from the sleepy town he left of four eating places and where irrigation water ran down virtually every street. He graduated from Dixie College, married Lois Waite from Bunkerville, Nevada, and moved to Ogden to complete his undergraduate studies. Thereafter he went o Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, Arizona, to complete his graduate studies in Educational Administration. His principal work has been as a teacher and administrator in the LDS Church Education System. Rod was introduced to poetry at Woodward Junior High School and from those early days he can still recite from memory some of what he learned from Shakespeare, Poe, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, and others. "My feelings about poets and poetry can be summed up with a slight adaptation from Edwin Arlington Robinson:" | ||
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Whether or not we read him, we can feel From time to time the vigor of his name Against us like a finger for the shame And emptiness [or beauty] of what our souls reveal. |
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