The Garden in Winter and Other Poems

"There's hardly a poem here from which some new perception or thought doesn't emerge. The influences are interesting and eclectic: Latin and Greek lyrics, Chinese poems, certain American poets - Zukofsky, Oppen, Creeley - known for their brevity, intensity, attention to craft. Moore's poems are highly wrought; he is a perfectionist, not a cold one, but one working closely and accurately with human emotions, an eye that has trained itself to see into things and bring back new discoveries. Often his poems are meditations, penetrating through the subject to the life behind it, bringing the moment out from the fixed and eternal. "Prentiss Moore's poems are dimensionally different from many poems one reads nowadays: they bring together life, art, past, and present, in the quiet and persuasive voice of a poet who feels reverence for what he touches and wishes to express what he feels personally of value, without distortion. These are truly lyrics of the intelligent imagination." - David Wevill

Prentiss Moore (19471998) lived in Austin, Texas.

Constellation Romance on Reading Meng Chiaos Sadness of the Gorges On Climbing the Big Pagoda in Changan Map Signature A History of Style A Choice of Color Message to the Pagans Ars Antiqua After Leopardi Dana Swallow Song Baucis and Philemon Poem Ode, Garrance Monet Debussy Monet at Giverny Paris Parisian Rondel From the Forest Photograph by Kertesz Photograph of Bonn at Christmas The Snow Leopard Atget Spinoza Breton Landscape Ma Mre LOye China Hasidim Psychopomp Two Poems in Autumn The Sun in Winter Trace The Rock Garden Soon It Will Be An 18th Century Motif Divertimento Huntress She Has Waited How Their Fingertips Good Luck The Minor Risk of the Snail Mother of Eros Wind Music The Garden in Winter November 7 The Perfume A Photograph of Zapata Paideuma The Father La Rgie du Jeu Sainte Sacred Love Figura Nothing to Terrain Prelude Delicatessen Texas Rime The Moon The Greek Measure What Is This Now Young Master Vermeers Woman Asleep The Roman Portrait Bust Casanovas Mother Ballad of the Beautiful Ladies The Life in Art Ousia Evening Star Ontology of the Wind Erebus Stoned To Choose From Tacitus Hard Labor Louis Zuk of sky Psalm of Africa Alexandrian Idyll The Spring of Bandusia Soracte 1717 DOrfeo The Coachmans Dream To Mallarm To Baudelaire To Roland Barthes Light of the World Simplicitas Syntactica Tomb Murals of the Han and Tang On Hearing The Musical Offering Begin Anywhere March 17 And Yet I Hardly Notice Poem A Certain World Postscript