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.
Table of Content
Contents
Photographs follow page
Preface Brenda Hillman
Acknowledgments
[Therefore, set forth over the black river]
Shadow and Light
Itinerary
By the Lake
Utensils
Driving to Fort Bragg
Dog in the Forest
History
Columbia 1960
Ten Philosophical Asides
Marginalia: Whitehead
Quotations
Analects
from d{ens}e{ens}l{ens}e{ens}t{ens}e
‘Come Live with Me’
:{ems}It{ems}:
from Writing the Silences
‘Come Sunday’
Birthright
Notebook
This Morning
Aftershock
Visiting Hours
The Parachutist’s Annunciation
Holding On
. . . a divertimento . . .
Footnotes
A Funeral of Memory
The Winter Garden
A Treasury of Darkness
Introit
Over the Shoulder
Meanwhile
Early Poems
from A History Primer
Seascape
from September Elegy
from At Caesar’s Gate
A Reminiscence
Birthday View Opening on a Garden
Notes
About the author
Richard O. Moore, now 90, is a poet, filmmaker, and seminal figure in public radio and television. Moore belonged to the San Francisco Renaissance literary circle of Kenneth Rexroth in the 1940s and 1950s, which was a precursor to the Beat poetry movement. Writing the Silences is his second book. Moore is the 2010 recipient of the Milley Award for Achievement in the Literary Arts. Brenda Hillman is an award-winning poet who has published eight books of poems, most recently Practical Water. Her collection Loose Sugar was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award in 1997. She is Olivia C. Filippi Professor of Poetry at Saint Mary’s College. Paul Ebenkamp holds an M.F.A. from Saint Mary’s College and works as a research assistant and editor.
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