Writing the Silences

Richard O. Moore

University of California Press, 2010 - Literary Criticism - 107 pages

The poems in Writing the Silences represent more than 60 years of Richard O. Moore's work as a poet. Selected from seven full-length manuscripts written between 1946 and 2008, these poems reflect not only Moore's place in literary history--he is the last of his generation of the legendary group of San Francisco Renaissance poets--but also his reemergence into today's literary world after an important career as a filmmaker and producer in public radio and television. Writing the Silences reflects Moore's commitment to freedom of form, his interest in language itself, and his dedication to issues of social justice and ecology.

Contents

• Shadow and Light: 5
• Itinerary: 6
• By the Lake: 7
• Utensils: 8
• Driving to Fort Bragg: 9
• Dog in the Forest: 10
• History: 11
• Columbia 1960: 13
• Ten Philosophical Asides: 15
• Whitehead: 27
• Quotations: 28
• Analects: 30
• from delete: 33
• Come Live with Me: 41
• It: 42
• from Writing the Silences: 43
• Come Sunday: 51
• Birthright: 52
• Notebook: 55
• This Morning: 56
• Aftershock: 57
• Visiting Hours: 58
• The Parachutists Annunciation: 60
• Holding On: 63
• a divertimento: 73
• Footnotes: 74
• A Funeral of Memory: 76
• The Winter Garden: 77
• A Treasury of Darkness: 82
• Introit: 83
• Over the Shoulder: 84
• Meanwhile: 85
• from A History Primer: 89
• Seascape: 90
• from September Elegy: 91
• from At Caesars Gate: 92
• A Reminiscence: 94
• Birthday View Opening on a Garden: 95
• Notes: 107

Bibliographic information

• Title: Writing the Silences; Volume 30 of New California poetry
• Author: Richard O. Moore
• Editors: Brenda Hillman, Paul Ebenkamp
• Contributor: Brenda Hillman
• Edition: illustrated
• Publisher: University of California Press, 2010
• ISBN: 0520262433, 9780520262430
• Length: 107 pages
• Subjects: Literary Criticism / General; Poetry / American / General; Poetry / General