Mr. Optometrist

Stanley Nelson’s plays have enjoyed over 100 productions in New York, London and college and community theaters throughout the US, and have been lauded by sources as diverse as The New York Daily News and the Village Voice. His Poe: From his Life and Mind was cited in Best Plays of 1971. He edited The Scene, four popular anthologies of plays from early Off-Off Broadway. His poems have appeared in over 50 publication and in several dozen anthologies. He has been awarded the Thomas Wolfe Poetry Award, and his Immigrant, an epic poem in four volumes, has been hailed as ＂one of the most important books of the second half of the twentieth century.＂ A book of experimental fiction, The Unknowable Light of the Alien, received a Small Press Book of the Year award.