About the Author

E Martin Nolan works at The Puritan and teaches at The University of Toronto. Born and raised in Detroit, he attended Loyola University New Orleans and U of T. His writing has appeared in Arc, CNQ and CV2, among others. He lives in Toronto.

Reviews

"E Martin Nolan's Still Point is [a] debut of remarkable talent."--Canadian Literature"Can
we still hope in an arc from one city to another, from one person to
another? Can we feel the 'sub-molecular effects' that link us in song
and empathy? Looking, listening, and entering into the lives of New
Orleans, Detroit, and Toronto during years of stunning destruction and
disconnection, Ted Nolan illuminates our consanguinity. His direct human
attentiveness to second-line musicians, streetcar riders, and ball
players has inspired remarkably well-anchored, vivid poems. Here they
are, the 'living hands' of living places--I hold them out to you."--Michael Lauchlan, Trumbull Ave"This
is in large part a book about city planning and demographics, which the
poet makes interesting by giving it narrative force, by having genuine
insights... This book illustrates two old saws: "when it rains it
pours," and "you can't go home again." It is a muted, stern indictment
of planning to fail, to fail certain people."--University of Toronto Quarterly"When
a book is this good, what to say? Without rhetoric, in intimate detail,
Nolan nails it. Behind our sealed windows, converging by accident, at
odds, moved only by the metaphysics of money, we hang on a hinge.
'Between what's what and what's coming.' Will we make it? Fat chance.
And yet the poems end on a sliver of hope. 'Thank you for having us, '
Nolan tells the birds. It may be hello or goodbye."--Rosemary Sullivan, Stalin's Daughter-- "Michael Lauchlan"