The Moon and Other Failures

By F.D. Reeve

The Moon and Other Failures presents two dozen new lyrics and a long dramatic narrative by F. D. Reeve, winner of the Golden Rose for lifelong poetic achievement. Reeve is a thinking-person's poet-meditative, weaving memories, mythic figures, personal reflections, and natural observances to arrive at larger truths. The short poems range from the elegiac "Village Graveyard" and philosophical "Coasting," a poem of almost perfect proportions, to such love poems as "Voices," and the witty "Telephone." Some of the poems express the sadness of irrecoverable loss; some the inevitability; and some rejoice in consequent rebirth and renewal. Repeatedly, throughout the book, the past is brought up against the present, this world against the next, the particular against the general.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0870135147
• ISBN13: 9780870135149
• Release Date: August 1999
• Publisher: Michigan State University Press
• Length: 65 Pages
• Weight: 0.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.0" x 9.0"