If No Moon
Will be published approx. on 30. March 2007
Book
Paperback/Softback
80 pages
978-0-8093-2761-4 (ISBN)
Description
If No Moon by award-winning author Moira Linehan documents the effects of profound loss and the dark withdrawal into grief. Wherever the author turns - the landscape of her backyard in Massachusetts, a Trappist monastery in Kentucky, the museums of Florence, or the cliffs of Inishmor in Ireland - she sees only the geography of emptiness. Crossovers between craft and art, form and voice, knitting and memory, recur throughout the poems. Lying within the traditions of narrative poetry, elegy, and the lyric, the collection reveals the mysterious journey of return. Coming full circle to find again the lyrical and the transcendent within the everyday, beauty eventually wins out. ""If No Moon"", accessible to all who have or will experience loss, is the voice of one who has come to understand that there is no other work but starting over.
Reviews / Votes
Wind-whipped on the promontory of loss, these winged poems are heroic answers to the void that Linehan's painstaking work shows us is a door. - Jack Myers, former poet laureate of Texas and author of Routine Heaven ""What a welcome and brilliant debut is Moira Linehan's superb If No Moon. This moving and luminous volume contains profound meditations on loss, on the rituals of mourning the beloved, and on the poet's difficult pilgrimage from ""grief's labyrinth"" to an eventual willingness to embrace life again. Linehan's lyrical and precise poems honestly enact and reveal our paradoxical natures, our mystery enshrouded lives - our human frailty, and our surprising strengths and resilience."" - Maurya Simon, author of Ghost Orchid ""Moira Linehan's measure in image and language makes of love and of grief intensities that can be borne, just borne, and catharsis."" - Carol Frost, author of The Queen's DesertionMore details
Series
Edition
Anniversary
Language
English
Place of publication
Carbondale
United States
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 162 mm
Thickness: 7 mm
Weight
159 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-8093-2761-4 (9780809327614)
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Moira Linehan
If No Moon
E-Book
03/2007
1st Edition
Southern Illinois University Press
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