Nodin Press, paperback
Publication Date: September 10, 2019
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In his new collection, The Song Castle, Michael Kiesow Moore ably negotiates the crosscurrents of lamentation and hope. He makes use of ancient myths, contemporary newspaper headlines—both real and imagined—and such quotidian events as holding hands in a park to paint a portrait of modern life that’s beautiful, troublesome, and full of mystery. We accompany him on an evening of quite conversation in a bar—pie night, no less!—that seems a lot like heaven, and through surreal daydreams during which boredom turns hallucinatory.
The book ends with a Whitmanesque hymn of praise to teachers, scholars, musicians, wise ones, and many others who contribute, often at great personal cost, to the continuing freedom and enlightenment of social and personal spaces. As poet Jim Moore succinctly puts it: “The project of these poems is to make love material.”
