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Throughout a long life, Richard Moore has won through to the belief that the only real reward in the arts of writing is the writing itself. The first of his nineteen books was published and nominated for a Pulitzer Prize when he was 44. The books that followed have brought the total to a novel, a book of literary essays, translations of a Greek tragedy and a Roman comedy, and fifteen books of poetry. These include a sequence of fifty-eight Petrarchan sonnets, an epic of American history, and an epic in trimeter couplets whose hero is a mouse born and raised in a sewer.
Cross
this Bridge at a Walk, is now available from
Wind Publications in Kentucky.
Its sixteen narrative poems recount
incidents in America’s history from the
Revolution to the present, with cameo
appearances by Mother Ann Lee, Emily Dickinson,
Scott Joplin, and Bix Beiderbecke.
To read sample poems from the book, go to
“Coxey’s Army,”
“Spirea,” or “Jesus
Walking on the Water.”
We offer to anyone who contributes $20
or more to The New Formalist a free hard
copy of Alfred Dorn’s latest book, Visits and
Vistas, signed by the author. This book is a limited
edition of 50 signed and numbered copies, and only 20 of
them remain available. They will be given to
contributors on a first-come, first-served basis.
Copies of Alfred Dorn’s earlier books are offered by
on-line booksellers for prices as high as $175, and signed
copies of his books are very scarce. Don’t delay!
