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Alden Nowlan
Alden Nowlan
(25 January 1933 - 27 June 1983 / Stanley, Nova Scotia)
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Alden Nowlan Poems
- The Masks Of Love I come in from a walk With you And they ...
- The Bull Moose Down from the purple mist of trees on the ...
- A Mysterious Naked Man A mysterious naked man has been ...
- A Certain Kind Of Holy Men Not every wino is a Holy Man. ...
- Broadcaster's Poem I used to broadcast at night alone in a ...
- The Anatomy Of Angels Angels inhabit love songs. But they’re ...
- A Poem About Miracles Why don't the records go blank the ...
Alden Nowlan was born into rural poverty in Stanley, Nova Scotia, adjacent to Mosherville, and close to the small town of Windsor, Nova Scotia, along a stretch of dirt road that he would later refer to as Desolation Creek. His father, Gordon Freeman Nowlan, worked sporadically as a manual labourer.
His mother, Grace Reese, was only 15 years of age when Nowlan was born, and she soon left the family, leaving Alden and her younger daughter Harriet, to the care of their paternal grandmother. The family discouraged education as a waste of time, and Nowlan left school after only four grades. At the age of 14, he went to work in the village sawmill. At the age of 16, Nowlan discovered ... more »
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The Masks Of Love
I come in from a walk
With you
And they ask me
If it is raining.
I didn’t notice
But I’ll have to give them
The right answer
Or they’ll think I’m crazy.
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An absolutely wonderful and talented poet. I'm so sad that 55 years of my life have passed before I took notice of him. Sometimes we don't know what we don't know. Alden is certainly the poster child of that.
hello Alden, what does this poem mean. I am a Chinese, difficult for me to understand