Author: Rosalie Moffett
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TWO POEMS from Rosalie Moffett
from TO HEAR A WAR FROM FAR AWAY This is the beginning, I am told, if we let it be. Arrests if you disagree. Deportations. Sacrifice, I am moved again to think, must come from how small we have been in the face of the enormity (the trembling ground, heartache, the sound a barge makes,…
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MONTHLY WITH Rosalie Moffett
FOUR POEMS INTERVIEW Rosalie Moffett is the author of Nervous System (Ecco) which was chosen by Monica Youn for the National Poetry Series Prize, and listed by the New York Times as a New and Notable book. She is also the author of June in Eden (OSU Press). She has been awarded the “Discovery”/Boston…
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FOUR POEMS by Rosalie Moffett
READ THE PAIRED INTERVIEW WITH ROSALIE MOFFETT IN SOUND MIND A jet drags its noise across my side of town, trawling for something. Its shadow, a small black insect, crawls across house after house. Up and up, over and over, a lithe little dark thought. I, too have had a weeviling-through, my sunny sensibility bedeviled by a pest. Up there, sky-high, do…
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INTERVIEW WITH Rosalie Moffett
READ THE POEMS PAIRED WITH THIS INTERVIEW FWR: In my first read of “In Sound Mind”, I was struck by how you play with sound throughout the poem (such as the lines “Up there, sky-high,/ do you, as you go, know the feeling/ you slough?”). Can you speak about the growth of this poem? How…