For Ronald Moore, poetry is a vehicle for moral and philosophical truth, and many of the poems in this powerful first collection, poems like Winter in an Empty Cathedral, recall the integrity of Hardy. Others, such as Not without Puccini and Poetry as a Last Alternative, reflect Moores love affair with music and with poetry. And then there are poems like The Real Funeral and One Turn to Arkansas that touch on truths about family and love. But these are not simply poems of philosophy and abstraction; these are poems grounded in transitions, travels, travails, and smiles. These are poems of striking imagery and lyric intnesity, poems of persons and things. Ronald Moore is a poet who acknowledges the beauty, sadness, and the occasional joy that is the result of the search. Indeed, Alterity mixes subject matter and form so well that the poems often seem, in their refinement and elegance, to be brushed by music. Alterity is a collection that is bound to delight both the mind and the ear.

Alterity

Literature & Fiction

Ronald E. Moore

Poetry

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<p>Baskerville Publishers is pleased to announce the publication of 8 Voices, contemporary poetry of the American Southwest. Eight poets from New Mexico, Oklahoma and Texas were selected to be included, all of whom are widely published and highly regarded. Their work clearly demonstrates that poetry of the Southwest is not to be lessened by being described as regional, but instead deals with the universal themes of all good poetry, while not losing a sense of place. During late November the book will be launched at four readings and signings, in Santa Fe, New Mexico, Norman, Oklahoma, Dallas and in Fort Worth, Texas. Three Texas poet laureates are among the contributors. Dr. Dan Williams, Director of the TCU Press, selected the poems. He has written an introduction which deals with issues surrounding regional poetry. He concludes the introduction by saying, I have gained much becoming acquainted with the poems included in this volume, and I feel privileged to have read and selected them. I believe anyone who picks up this volume will feel the same. Michael McGaba and Rainer Schulte have praised the book. Tom Sleigh writes of the poetry, ... these poems are wonderfully idiosyncratic voices as cosmopolitan as they are rooted in what Seamus Heaney once called the music of what happens ... The region that unites them is the republic of memorable speech.</p>

8 Voices

Alan Birkelbach

Nathan Brown

Jeffrey DeLotto

Tony Mares

Karla K. Morton

Elizabeth Raby

Gary Swaim

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