Treacherous Piercing Thorn: The Collected Poems of Lloyd Nelson Wood

by Lloyd Nelson Wood

Overview

Lloyd Nelson Wood is one a list of poets in an extended clan with last names like Wood and Thornburg centered in Fresno, California. Lloyd Nelson Wood's surviving poetry was written during the 1940's and is contained in this collection. In one poem, we find out that "where others got the Holy Ghost he stood and wet his pants." You'll have to read the book to find out who and why. The title of the collection is taken from the poem "In the Spring".
Volume edited by Tim Wood

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780982219300
Publisher:	OHWpress
Publication date:	11/01/2008
Pages:	132
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.28(d)
Age Range:	12 Years

About the Author

Lloyd Nelson Wood was born in Haddam (Middlesex County), Connecticut to Charles Anson and Mary L. Wood in 1879. He moved to California and studied at the University of California San Francisco, but managed to get out of town before it burned in 1906. He married Mary Anna Crook in 1911 and worked as a Veterinarian.