Eric Nunnally
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The Golden Calf Reflex
by Eric Nunnally
The Golden Calf Reflex explores the enduring human impulse to surrender freedom, discernment, and personal responsibility in exchange for certainty.
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I am a writer, educator, traveler, and lifelong observer of the forces that shape human character.
After more than three decades in classrooms across the United States and Asia, I now divide my attention between writing and building a quieter, more self-sufficient life in Belize. My work draws from lived experience, history, philosophy, faith, cultural displacement, and the small private moments through which people reveal who they truly are.
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All postsWhy was Cohiban Fire the original working title, and what did “fire” represent to you at that stage of the collection?
The simplest answer is that I liked the sound of Cohiban Fire and everything the phrase conjured for me: the crackle at the end of a cigar as someone inhales…
Since the poems span nearly three decades, what was the greatest challenge in making the collection feel like one coherent book rather than a personal archive?
To be honest, the ambition was to make Blaming Eve feel like one coherent book, but whether I fully accomplished that probably depends on whom you ask.
What personal or intellectual conflict first compelled you to begin writing the poems that eventually became Blaming Eve?
I get caught on the word conflict, because conflict is woven into life itself—tension, challenge, struggle, growing pains, unanswered questions.
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