Memoir1988

"This first collection of poems by Honor Moore brings together such much-acclaimed poems as 'First Time 1950,' 'My Mother's Moustache' and 'Spuyten Duyvil.' Several of Memoir's twenty-five poems explore in richly personal terms such public issues as the nuclear threat, AIDS, the struggle for accommodation between the sexes, sexual abuse. All of the poems, in a style described by Marilyn Hacker as 'consummately textured, most elegant when most desperate,' explore the turbulent course of love, including erotic, sensuous love as well as the many-layered attachments to family. June Jordan praises Honor Moore for being a poet 'who can boast, 'I am not afraid to begin to love or to keep loving'.'"