Duck
Lake Books presents
BOYS
a poetry chapbook by
Daniel
Edward Moore
Book
Release Date
December
1, 2019
ISBN: 978-1-943900-90-9
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The chapbook, Boys, like real boys
packs raw, powerful emotion in a deceptively small package. These are
twenty-five poems that wrestle with sorrows and joys, strength and weakness,
power and vulnerability that all boys struggle with on the journey to
manhood, but few have the artistic talent to shape into words. Daniel Edward
Moore takes us on a poetic journey into the souls of boys with honest grit,
integrity and sensitivity. Boys is an epic journey
disguised as a chapbook.
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The
most important poems change us; the most lasting ones, change us for the good.
Daniel Edward Moore's poems in his new collection, Boys, are as powerful
for their honesty and vulnerability, as they are for their
depictions—mirrors—of what it means to take the masks completely off and become
“between moans of pleasure / making a path only pain can walk—” that
core of who we are meant to be. It is not an easy journey. These are poems that
punch and kiss at the same time; a boxing match between desire and memory,
faith and disbelief. They urge us to face the truths we often hide from, and
more important, face the truths we look square in the face and embrace.
Beautifully crafted, with the muscle of extraordinary imagery and emotion, they
are also simply transformational—using the poet's art to inhabit us, fill us,
and urge us to ask not who we are, but who can we become. They are poems that
change us, indeed, for the good.
Philip F. Clark
Sibling Rivalry Press, 2017
In poetry, what I look
for—hope for—is to come upon a voice like no other. That’s what I find in
Daniel Edward Moore’s Boys, a collection of poems in an utterly
distinctive voice, where rage and pain rise suddenly off the page like startled
quail. Moore’s images come in cascades, vivid and immediate, as in the poem
“Dreaming of Sacrifice Gone,” about a deeply religious farmer—the speaker's
father—who has “hands that turned fields into green congregations.” Through the
alchemy of language, the world’s hurts can become luminous. And in Moore’s
poems, they do.
Edward Harkness
Pleasure Boat Studio, 2018
About the Poet:
Daniel
Edward Moore is an award-winning poet whose works have appeared in literary
journals such as American Literary Review, Columbia Journal of Arts And
Literature, Spoon River Poetry Review, Rattle, Mid-American
Review, Assaracus Review, and many others. His first book, Waxing the Dents,
was a finalist for the Brick Road Poetry Prize and will be published by Brick
Road Poetry Press in April 2020.
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The poet’s website: www.danieledwardmoore.com
Revised August 10, 2019
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