History by Rodger Moody
Poetry. Rodger Moody's HISTORY is not just his own story. Yes, these poems tell the story of one man's life from the American mid- century on to the present moment. But they also chart the ways a soul may gradually grow more ample, complex, supple, and humane. From childhood bewilderments and adolescent desires, to inevitable encounters with the world's savageries and insanities, and then to the tender dilemmas of parenthood and the stern losses one must learn to absorb, these poems reveal what Moody calls the 'real work.' As he says in the title poem, the labor of soul-making 'begins in the long dark' before you turn on the lights, and is 'lonely / against the backdrop of ordinary days.'--Fred Marchant
Moody, Rodger: - Rodger Moody lives in Eugene, Oregon, and is the founding editor of Silverfish Review Press. He has had writing fellowships at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, Massachusetts. Poems and prose poems have appeared in many magazines, including Caliban, Cloudbank, upstreet, Indiana Review, Paragraph, and ZYZZYVA. A chapbook, Unbending Intent, was published by 26 Books. He has been the recipient of the C. Hamilton Bailey Fellowship in Poetry from Literary Arts in Portland, Oregon. SELF-PORTRAIT / SIXTEEN SEVENLINGS was the winner of the Bright Hill Press Poetry Chapbook Award. For the past twenty-eight years Moody has made his living as a warehouse worker.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780983909224 |
| ISBN 10 | 0983909229 |
| Title | History |
| Author | Rodger Moody |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Sight / For / Sight Books |
| Year published | 2015-06-01 |
| Number of pages | 72 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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