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Book SynopsisA book of poems by a Texas writer.
Trade Review"There's hardly a poem here from which some new perception or thought doesn't emerge. The influences are interesting and eclectic: Latin and Greek lyrics, Chinese poems, certain American poets - Zukofsky, Oppen, Creeley - known for their brevity, intensity, attention to craft. Moore's poems are highly wrought; he is a perfectionist, not a cold one, but one working closely and accurately with human emotions, an eye that has trained itself to see into things and bring back new discoveries. Often his poems are meditations, penetrating through the subject to the life behind it, bringing the moment out from the fixed and eternal. "Prentiss Moore's poems are dimensionally different from many poems one reads nowadays: they bring together life, art, past, and present, in the quiet and persuasive voice of a poet who feels reverence for what he touches and wishes to express what he feels personally of value, without distortion. These are truly lyrics of the intelligent imagination." - David Wevill
Table of Contents
- Constellation
- Romance on Reading Meng Chiao’s “Sadness of the Gorges”
- On Climbing the Big Pagoda in Changan
- Map
- Signature
- A History of Style
- A Choice of Color
- Message to the Pagans
- Ars Antiqua
- After Leopardi
- Danaë
- Swallow Song
- Baucis and Philemon
- Poem
- Ode, Garrance
- Monet
- Debussy
- Monet at Giverny
- Paris
- Parisian Rondel
- From the Forest
- Photograph by Kertesz
- Photograph of Bonn at Christmas
- The Snow Leopard
- Atget
- Spinoza
- Breton Landscape
- Ma Mère L’Oye
- China
- Hasidim
- Psychopomp
- Two Poems in Autumn
- The Sun in Winter
- Trace
- The Rock Garden
- Soon It Will Be
- An 18th Century Motif
- Divertimento
- Huntress
- She Has Waited
- How Their Fingertips
- Good Luck
- The Minor Risk of the Snail
- Mother of Eros
- Wind
- Music
- The Garden in Winter
- November 7
- The Perfume
- A Photograph of Zapata
- Paideuma
- The Father
- La Règie du Jeu
- Sainte
- Sacred Love
- Figura
- Nothing to Terrain
- Prelude
- Delicatessen
- Texas
- Rime
- The Moon
- The Greek
- Measure
- What Is This Now
- Young Master
- Vermeer’s Woman Asleep
- The Roman Portrait Bust
- Casanova’s Mother
- Ballad of the Beautiful Ladies
- The Life in Art
- Ousia
- Evening Star
- Ontology of the Wind
- Erebus
- Stoned
- To Choose
- From Tacitus
- Hard Labor
- Louis Zuk of sky
- Psalm of Africa
- Alexandrian Idyll
- The Spring of Bandusia
- Soracte
- 1717
- D’Orfeo
- The Coachman’s Dream
- To Mallarmé
- To Baudelaire
- To Roland Barthes
- Light of the World
- Simplicitas Syntactica
- Tomb Murals of the Han and T’ang
- On Hearing The Musical Offering
- Begin Anywhere
- March 17
- And Yet I Hardly Notice
- Poem
- A Certain World
- Postscript
