If No Moon
1st Edition
Published on 26. March 2007
84 pages
978-0-8093-8752-6 (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 tradition 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.
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If No Moon
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Content
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Quarry
- One
- Penelope
- Vow of Stability
- What He Did for Me
- If No Moon
- Against Asking
- Just Name It
- Letter to Mario Saavedra-Olavarrieta, Now Brother Daniel, Weston Priory, Weston, Vermont
- Two
- Another Waking
- The Route Grief Takes
- For the Rest of My Life I Would Wear Black,
- Pieta
- Two Hearts
- Memento Mori
- Marking Time
- Crows
- The Pilrim's Way
- Three
- Dread
- Refuge
- Still Missing
- Boxers Were What My Father Painted
- Ireland
- On Inishmor
- Hunger
- Going Back
- Legend
- Four
- The New Part
- Back
- Understory
- Eve's Design
- All Over Again
- Back into Place
- Ars Poetica
- In Praise of
- Late Letter
- Notes
- Other Books in the Crab Orchard Series in Poetry
- Back Cover
