Acrostic Woodstock
by Will Nixon ’75
Bushwhack Books, December 2015
In more than 70 poems, Will Nixon offers a portrait of Woodstock, New York, a village of beloved shops, free spirits, artistic traditions, spiritual refuges, and unexpected moments of humor and grace. Poems recall Levon Helm’s “Midnight Ramble” or the night Jimi Hendrix played the Tinker Street Cinema. There are elegies to famous painters now in the Artists Cemetery. There are odes to the hardware store and pizza parlor. All sides of Woodstock life find their way into the book. An afterward, “The Stories Behind the Poems,” provides further history and lore.
Will Nixon has published two poetry collections, My Late Mother as a Ruffed Grouse (Foothills) and Love in the City of Grudges (Foothills). With Michael Perkins he has co-authored Walking Woodstock: Journeys into the Wild Heart of America’s Most Famous Small Town (Bushwhack) and The Pocket Guide to Woodstock (Bushwhack).