Memoir

“Oh, thank God: A faithful American poet living among us: A poet who can boast, ‘I am not afraid to begin to love or to keep loving’! Moore’s poetry delivers stunning evidence of a relentlessly tender, a scrupulously moral, and an intelligently sensual intersection with the beloved possibility of THE OTHER ONE who waits upon our faith. These poems constitute a deep and gorgeous testimony to such a willing, lyrical trust.”

— June Jordan, author of Directed by Desire: Collected Poems

“As if excavating her life, Honor Moore has uncovered with care the artifacts of the heart, and with deep intelligence explored the fissures in common speech and the shiftings of consciousness beneath them. At memory’s insistence she has written this book, which opens with one of the most important poetic meditations on nuclear war to have been published during the past decade and concludes with an intimate, almost epistolary poem about a friend who died of AIDS. We are thus in the presence of a poet who can be praised not only for the eloquence and musicality of her voice, but also for the courage of her moral engagement. It is not only beautiful work, it is brave.”

— Carolyn Forché, author of What You Have Heard
Is True: A Memoir of Witness and Resistance

“Remarkable, in Honor Moore’s Memoir, how the power of loyalty—to parents, to siblings, to her own body—generates that other power, the power of longing, of desire, and of bestowal. . . . Recurrence, then, is her Muse, shadowed—as Proust says—by girls in bloom; acknowledged, cherished as her own.”