On the Path - Softcover

Moore, Mary E

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0692320377 ISBN 13: 9780692320372

Verlag: Alabaster Leaves Publishing, 2014

Inhaltsangabe

In a cinquain titled “Fate,” Mary E. Moore describes her subject this way:
Clamping
its teeth firmly
on that which comes to hand,
it bites down, regardless of fault
or faith.
Thanks to dark humor and forceful imagery, the poet has managed, within the scant twenty-two syllables allowed by the form, to dispense with the role of either morality or religious belief in human life. Again and again in this thoroughly satisfying collection—a dazzling array of strict forms, including limericks, double dactyls, villanelles, sonnets, triolets and rondeaus, as well as in free verse—Moore startles the reader by moving in an instant from laughter to rueful and sometimes shocking observation.
What she observes, with amusement, intelligence, and a kind of feisty acceptance, is nothing less than the inexorable realities, the transformations and losses wrought by aging, and the small but important comforts to be found “on the path” to our unavoidable destination.
I recommend, with grateful pleasure, these variously moving, funny, undeluded poems, as excellent traveling companions that will help the reader “contemplate with awe the places we pass.”
—Rhina P. Espaillat
What impressed me most about Mary E. Moore's work is her keen eye, her honesty and her accuracy. For me, those are cardinal virtues of writing. Poems of hers like “Widow” and “Coming and Going” are so real that it hurts to read them. And yet we're glad that we did, because we were able to see the world through her eyes’ unjaded experience.
—Michael R. Burch, editor of The HyperTexts

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Mary E. Moore grew up in Passaic, NJ. Her mother had moved there to be with her parents when Mary’s father was killed in an automobile accident when Mary was two. Her mother was a school teacher and Mary was raised, in part, by her maternal grandmother and grandfather.
After acquiring an A.B. from New Jersey College for Women (now Douglass College) of Rutgers University, Moore worked in the Sociology Department of Rutgers, while earning a Ph.D. in Psychology from that University. Later, while working in the Psychiatry Department of the University of Pennsylvania, she became interested in medicine and enrolled at the Temple University School of Medicine, earning her M.D. degree. She did advanced medical training at Temple University Hospital where she joined the faculty, rising to the rank of full Professor. Her final full-time medical position was as Head of the Arthritis Center at Albert Einstein Medical Center, Northern Division, in Philadelphia.
Only after her retirement, Moore, who had written an occasional poem for many years, began to seriously study and write poetry.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Alabaster Leaves Publishing
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2014
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0692320377
• ISBN 13: 9780692320372
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 106
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