It is not beautiful, this dying,
but it is what this god has for a tool.
—from "Blood Harmony"
Jim Moore's sixth collection, Lightning at Dinner—urgent and devotional—bears down on loss and how to render it in art with clarity enough to outlast our small, brief lives. These poems explore the places where the self meets the world, whether in the guise of a dying mother, another country, or a war fought against one's wishes, in one's own name.
It is not beautiful, this dying,
but it is what this god has for a tool.
—from "Blood Harmony"
Jim Moore's sixth collection, Lightning at Dinner—urgent and devotional—bears down on loss and how to render it in art with clarity enough to outlast our small, brief lives. These poems explore the places where the self meets the world, whether in the guise of a dying mother, another country, or a war fought against one's wishes, in one's own name.
Lightning at Dinner: Poems
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Product Details
ISBN-13: | 9781555974251 |
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Publisher: | Graywolf Press |
Publication date: | 08/28/2005 |
Edition description: | First Edition |
Pages: | 72 |
Product dimensions: | 6.02(w) x 9.04(h) x 0.21(d) |