InThe Room WithinMoore Morancommunicates his affection for the art of poetry by writing in many of its intriguing forms and their beckoning promises. His work has a stylistic range that moves from the traditional to free verse to syllabic ventures—sometimes employing rhyme. Whatever the form, the voice is unmistakably his own.
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“Imagine a poet who can deal with the experience of Jack Kerouac but with too much intelligence to limit himself to the road. You don’t have to imagine him. He exists in Moore Moran. Moran has many skills, all of them beautifully bright, and on occasion when he looks into the abyss they take him safely over it.”
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Moore Moran's first book,Firebreaks, won the National Poetry Book Award in 1999. His poems have appeared in theAtlantic Monthly,Paris Review, and elsewhere. He lives in Santa Rosa, California.
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
An excellent collection, not to be missed,
By Midwest Book Review (Oregon, WI USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: The Room Within: Poems (Hardcover)
Fifty years of experience can be fifty years of entertainment. "The Room Within" is a collection of poetry from Moore Moran, providing a glimpse at the poet's work dating back over the decades as he provides his love for the art and gives much to ponder and think about in the process. "The Room Within" is an excellent collection, not to be missed. "Silent Night": We try, this Christmas Eve, to make things right./But as we meet and share gifts, once love's token,/Our hug's too keen, our smiles too quick and bright,/And through we speak, the final word's been spoken.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
The Room Within,
This review is from: The Room Within: Poems (Paperback)
Caveat lector: Mike Moran is my friend, mentor, co-religionist and fellow Irish-American, so
I do not approach this marvelous collection in a dispassionate way. He's one of those rara aves who can write equally well in form or freely, confirming again what my old tutor, Robert Penn Warren told me at seventeen: "Boy, if you want to write free verse, first you have to learn how to write in meter and rhyme." I tend to like Moran best when he is at his most formal, most concise, most spiritual. But I like everything in this book, his first in a decade, and I am very grateful to Swallow, whose specialty is poets of the American West, for giving us this generous sampling from one of Ivor Winter's greatest Stanford students. Here's a poem that utterly delights me. The Truth Concerning the Pizza in Monterey Custom House Cafe stood on this spot, straddling Pier and sea wall like a fisherman gaffing catch. It was here, in Forty-Six, that Carlos brought pizza To the county--hand-pounding his dough flats so fine That when he spun them at the ceiling, light From the harbor shone through. At the great iron oven he would hand them out crackling, Bubbling real Mafia mozzarella, Tomato so fresh it sassed you all the way down; Crust edges: buttery popover. Friday nights, Ramirez and I downed two extra-larges per, hardly pausing To pull on longnecks so cold chunks of ice Still knocked around inside the bottles. Today You can only get pizza at the franchise parlors in town Where the freshest thing going is the waiters. And nobody tosses anymore. Instead, they pancake Their wheat-germy dough through rubber wringers Lifted from old washing machines in the junkyard. I responded to Mike via email: "I just completely cracked up on your Pizza poem. We still have a pizzeria like that in Fargo, where the dough is thrown. Duane came here from Naples Pizza in New Haven, yeah the ORIGINAL joint. (You can imagine how much Naples Pizza I ate on my all-nighters.) I'm thinking, hmm, tastes just like home! Duane died many years ago but not before teaching his son to make a perfect thin crust pizza. My ideological opponent but old friend, Senator Byron Dorgan, always flew into Fargo rather than Bismarck so he could eat Duane's pizza, even though that left him a 200 mile drive to the state capital. But trust Byron to fly fifteen hundred and drive two hundred miles for the perfect pizza."
5.0 out of 5 stars
Mysterious, funny, and always moving,
This review is from: The Room Within: Poems (Paperback)
I have a love for the traditional, classic poet, but Moore Moran has stirred my love for poetry, and brought it to a new level.
He is so very unique in his style of verse. I am so thankful to have been introduced to this incredible poet. I understand that he past away this past February, what a sad loss to the world of literature. I would have loved to have a "sit down" with this gentleman, and pick his brain for a while. If you love poetry, and enjoy being moved emotionally, buy this book. You can't go wrong. It is now my favorite!
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