Summary
Jim Moore’s poems “are chips of reality, obsidian flakes of the heart and mind.” (Jane Hirshfield)
In his eighth collection, the celebrated poet Jim Moore looks into unrelenting darkness where moments of tenderness and awe illuminate, at times suddenly like lightning in the night, at others, more quietly, as the steady glow of streetlights in a snowstorm. These are poems of both patience and urgency, of necessary attendance and helpless exuberance in the breathing world—something rare…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781644450703 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1644450704 |
| Author: | Jim Moore |
| Publisher: | Graywolf Press,U.S. |
| Imprint: | Graywolf Press,U.S. |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 88 |
| Release Date: | 8 March 2022 |
| Weight: | 179g |
| Dimensions: | 10mm x 156mm x 232mm |
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Critics Review
“These are poems of arresting lyric reportage; whimsical, tragic, a touch fantastical.”–Daisy Fried, The New York Times Book Review
”[In Prognosis, ] Moore isn’t telling readers to look away from contemporary realities, but rather to invest care and compassion in the present moment and the people within arm’s reach… . In Moore’s work, readers will discover that clarity and mystery are not mutually exclusive as they encounter luminous images packed with the complexity of life deeply lived.”–Elizabeth Hoover, Star Tribune
“There is a stunning clarity to Jim Moore’s latest poems… . Poised at the threshold of mortality, ‘unencumbered / by thoughts of what might have been, ’ these poems hover between transient beauty and transfigured time; they embrace and let go of ‘what was never ours to keep.’”–Arthur Sze
Jim Moore
Jim Moore is the author of seven books of poetry, including Underground: New and Selected Poems. His poetry has appeared in The Nation, The New Yorker, The Paris Review, and elsewhere. He lives in Minneapolis, Minnesota, and Spoleto, Italy.
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