Wayfarers
2018 Pelekinesis
ISBN: 978-1938349744 | Paperback | Pages: 88 | $17.95
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Nomadic outsiders wander in a mythological world subject to chance, good or bad fortune. A family crosses the American Southwest in the 1920s. And a home dweller explores the mystery of familiar places.
In these poems, tales told by multiple narrators, wayfarers move through a sparsely populated terrain, finding hardship, beauty, peril, the ineffable. Some are escaping events beyond their control, some choose to roam, and others stay in place, delving into the interior landscape.
Praise for Wayfarers
Wayfarers invites me in, through the gaze (not just visual) of a spirit opening to her surroundings, to time past and present and time immeasurable. What the poems seem to have in common is an attention to transience, and behind all that transience something more elusive, as if transience itself were a fossil, a signpost. I found the poems meditative, tender, challenging and musical (Leonids!) in a landscape where joy and loss are not adversaries.
RON DRUMMOND
Poems of Right Attentiveness. Poems on a shifting journey, a metaphor where parataxis Mind-objects resonate. The Wayfarers drawn to different places. We entered the stream above the crossing. The words of Moore’s instruction make each poem in this volume a recipe for how the universe works.
She is a fresh, summergreen writer of ecological cautionary tales and the tense energies as found in local woodlots. Interesting concepts and depth of language spark like the fireflies (what else).
ALAN CASLINE, ROOTDRINKER
These beautifully articulated poems celebrate continuity on a haunted earth.
SUSAN SINDALL, AUTHOR OF WHAT’S LEFT