Particulars of Place - Softcover

Volta" Richard O. Moore s poetry holds firm, as Williams put it, while searching out all corners of the mind with intimacy and conviction, and without adornment or brokered sentiment. His Blindness Sonnets alone are as moving and searing in their even-handed concision as any sense-driven poems I ve read in recent years, and the entirety of Particulars of Place makes for an emphatically real, and nonetheless nourishing, world. No other poetry I know of sings from such ground. Anselm Berrigan, author of Notes From Irrelevance" "Richard O. Moore's poetry holds firm, as Williams put it, while searching out all corners of the mind with intimacy and conviction, and without adornment or brokered sentiment. His 'Blindness Sonnets' alone are as moving and searing in their even-handed concision as any sense-driven poems I've read in recent years, and the entirety of Particulars of Place makes for an emphatically real, and nonetheless nourishing, world. No other poetry I know of sings from such ground."--Anselm Berrigan, author of Notes From Irrelevance (1/1/2014 12:00:00 AM) Moore's Particulars of Place beautifully portrays an aging speaker's relationship with words as well as the world.--Sally McCallum "Volta" (8/1/2015 12:00:00 AM) "Moore's Particulars of Place beautifully portrays an aging speaker's relationship with words as well as the world."--Sally McCallum, Volta "Moore s Particulars of Place beautifully portrays an aging speaker s relationship with words as well as the world." Sally McCallum, Volta"

The last living member of the original circle of Anarcho-pacifist poets at the birth of the San Francisco Renaissance, Richard O. Moore presents his second book, Particulars of Place. The title poem is a meditation on life in the twilight of American Empire, posing the question of how to live in an age of endless warfare. Throughout, Moore's commitment to social justice mingles with his interest in Wittgenstein's linguistic philosophy, resulting in a poetic amalgam unique to Moore himself. Reflecting a lifetime of devotion to the art of poetry, Particulars of Place confirms Moore's paradoxical position as a newly emerging old master.