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“[These poems] are at once sensual and intellectual, erotic and philosophic, and they appeal to all the senses.†Richard O. Moore , now 90, is a poet, filmmaker, and seminal figure in public radio and television. Moore belonged to the San Francisco Renaissance literary circle of Kenneth Rexroth in the 1940s and 1950s, which was a precursor to the Beat poetry movement. Writing the Silences is his second book. Moore is the 2010 recipient of the Milley Award for Achievement in the Literary Arts. Brenda Hillman is an award-winning poet who has published eight books of poems, most recently Practical Water . Her collection Loose Sugar was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award in 1997. She is Olivia C. Filippi Professor of Poetry at Saint Mary's College. Paul Ebenkamp holds an M.F.A. from Saint Mary's College and works as a research assistant and editor. "Here is poetry that reminds its readers that a poem is as much a crucible of thinking as it is a crucible of belief, that philosophical doubt and mythic vision do not oppose each other, but are contradictions in which world turns around to become word."—Dan Beachy-Quick, author of This Nest Zusammenfassung Features the poems that are selected from the author's seven full-length manuscripts written between 1946 and 2008. Contents Photographs follow page Preface Brenda Hillman Acknowledgments [Therefore, set forth over the black river] Shadow and Light Itinerary By the Lake Utensils Driving to Fort Bragg Dog in the Forest History Columbia 1960 Ten Philosophical Asides Marginalia: Whitehead Quotations Analects from d{ens}e{ens}l{ens}e{ens}t{ens}e “Come Live with Me†:{ems}It{ems}: from Writing the Silences “Come Sunday†Birthright Notebook This Morning Aftershock Visiting Hours The Parachutist’s Annunciation Holding On . . . a divertimento . . . Footnotes A Funeral of Memory The Winter Garden A Treasury of Darkness Introit Over the Shoulder Meanwhile Early Poems from A History Primer Seascape from September Elegy from At Caesar’s Gate A Reminiscence Birthday View Opening on a Garden Notes ...
