Particular Scandals by Julie L Moore

Particular Scandals by Julie L Moore

Broad in scope--theological, ecological, and personal--and acutely particular in details--witnessed and lived--the affecting poems in Particular Scandals explore how one endures suffering, avoiding the cliches of both bitterness and transcendence. Thus, while Moore's poetry depicts the debilitating ruin illness wreaks, it also embraces the beauty and mystery in creation, in faith, even in tribulation itself. At the book's core is pure paradox and insightful integration, wedding Christmas--Christ's incarnation and eventual, willing sacrifice--to pain and grief. Thus, on the heels of Moore's multiple surgeries and amid her husband's serious heart problem--both while in their forties--come flashes of hallelujah and songs knit with Amens un- / broken, like a world without end. Empathetic and observant, Moore's evocative poems also turn their attention to friends' and other family members' appalling losses: a stillborn infant, suicidal adolescents, molested, and trafficked children. All in all, the book portrays how Moore survives like the Sycamore tree in one of her poems, scabbed and scarred from moments like this, offering her empty self / like a cup to the Lord of the storm.

Moore, Julie L.: - Julie L. Moore is the author of Slipping Out of Bloom (2010) and the chapbook Election Day (2006). Her poetry has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize twice and Best of the Net and has appeared both in anthologies and in publications like The Christian Century, The Missouri Review Online, The Southern Review, Valparaiso Poetry Review, and Verse Daily. She lives in Cedarville, Ohio, where she's the Writing Center Director at Cedarville University.

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ISBN 13	9781498216388
ISBN 10	1498216382
Title	Particular Scandals
Author	Julie L Moore
Series	Poiema Poetry
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Wipf & Stock Publishers
Year published	2013-06-04
Number of pages	96
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