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- If No Moon
- Book
- 2007
- Published by: Southern Illinois University Press
- Series: Crab Orchard Series in Poetry
summary
If No Moon by award-winning author Moira Linehan documents the effects of profound loss and the dark withdrawal into grief. Wherever the author turns—the landscape of her backyard in Massachusetts, a Trappist monastery in Kentucky, the museums of Florence, or the cliffs of Inishmor in Ireland—she sees only the geography of emptiness. Crossovers between craft and art, form and voice, knitting and memory, recur throughout the poems. Lying within the tradition of narrative poetry, elegy, and the lyric, the collection reveals the mysterious journey of return. Coming full circle to find again the lyrical and the transcendent within the everyday, beauty eventually wins out. If No Moon, accessible to all who have or will experience loss, is the voice of one who has come to understand that there is no other work but starting over.
Table of Contents
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- Title Page
- p. 4
- Acknowledgments
- pp. xi-xii
- Vow of Stability
- pp. 11-24
- What He Did for Me
- pp. 12-25
- If No Moon
- pp. 13-26
- Against Asking
- pp. 14-16
- Just Name It
- pp. 17-18
- Another Waking
- pp. 25-38
- The Route Grief Takes
- pp. 26-39
- Two Hearts
- pp. 30-43
- Memento Mori
- pp. 31-44
- Marking Time
- pp. 32-33
- The Pilgrim's Way
- pp. 35-36
- Still Missing
- pp. 42-55
- Boxers Were What My Father Painted
- pp. 43-56
- On Inishmor
- pp. 47-48
- Going Back
- pp. 50-63
- The New Part
- pp. 55-56
- Understory
- pp. 58-71
- Eve's Design
- pp. 59-72
- All Over Again
- pp. 60-61
- Back into Place
- pp. 62-63
- Ars Poetica
- pp. 64-77
- In Praise of
- pp. 65-78
- Late Letter
- pp. 66-67
- Back Cover
- p. 84
Additional Information
ISBN
9780809387526
Related ISBN(s)
9780809327614
MARC Record
OCLC
828870123
Pages
88
Launched on MUSE
2014-01-01
Language
English
Open Access
No
Copyright
2007