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Carolyn Moore’s lyrics, meditations, and elegies use language from geology, botany, and, yes, mathematics to explore the human condition.
List of contents
Table of Contents
I
The Logic of a Lesser Loved Science 2
Grammar Lesson at the Junkyard 3
The Hubble Space Telescope: A Story of Damage and Repair 4
The Case for Pointillism 5
Searching Tucson for Words To Say Goodbye 7
Summer Solstice at Dead Mouse Marsh 9
Seeking Solace in Sonics 11
First Breakfast Out After Parting 12
Like Photos the Dead Woman Forgot To Date 13
Gray and More of It 16
Closing Time at the Arizona-Sonora Museum 17
Cleaning Out the Junk Drawer after the AP Bulletin on the Mummified Baby Found
in a Florida Storage Unit 18
Meditation for the Chronically Distracted 19
Instructions for Fall Cleaning 20
In Search of Sea-Change 22
Love Letter There's No Need to Mail 23
The Revised Aesthetics of Healing 24
The Need for Mathematics in Wet, Early Spring 26
Correcting Magnetic North 27
Salvation by Botany 30
II
What Euclid's Third Axiom Neglects To Mention about Circles 32
Basic Training 34
On First Hearing Brahms' First 35
The Olson Sisters: Field Notes of a Descendent 37
The Clematis Lays Down the Rules 39
Selected Moments in Geologic Hunger 40
Stone Bookends 42
Balancing the Checkbook During U.S. Air Strikes 40
Letter to a Nephew in Afghanistan 46
Words Spoken to a Sleeper 48
In November, Shades of Blue 49
Lessons from the Ghost House on Walnut Street Once Widening the Road Felled
Those Namesake Trees 51
Note Found on a Grave 52
A Brief History of Nails 54
The Year of Jigsaw Puzzles with My Mother 55
Two Conversations in a White, White Kitchen 56
How Like Her Weaving, Her Swimming 58
Adopting a Gorgon: One Parent's Experience 59
The Feast of the Epiphany 60
Words Written To Accompany a Milagro Cross 61
Persephone and Demeter in Ethiopia 62
The Garden of Enormous Language 63
Winter Solstice in London 64
The First Day of Bees 65
Entomology 66
Botany, Domestic Architecture, and the End of Days 67
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About the author
Carolyn Moore: Carolyn Moore has published four chapbooks and taught at Humboldt State University (Arcata, California) until able to eke out a living as a freelance writer. She now works from the last vestige of the family farm in Tigard, Oregon.
Summary
"Carolyn Moore is a poet whose lyrics, meditations, and elegies use language from geology, botany, and mathematics to explore the human condition. She uses the conventions of contemporary poetry with confidence, but much of the lyricism comes from a vocabulary from scientific categories that is not often used. However, these poems share a deep faith in the power of poetry to connect a life in science, the complexities of family, recognition of desire and suffering to a passion for words."Patricia Spears Jones
Carolyn Moore has published four chapbooks. She now works from the last vestige of the family farm in Tigard, Oregon.
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