Daughter of the Rain
Poems
Gail Gauldin Moore
ISBN: 978-0-9600293-8-9
6 x 9 paperback; $17.25
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From the back cover
In this beautiful, precise and urgent collection, poet Gail Gauldin Moore returns with heightened art and intuition. These are truly dynamic poems, written in a variety of styles and baring witness from a vantage point at once celestial and at your shoulder. If this is your first experience of her, you couldn’t have picked a better introduction. Daughter of the Rain contains new and revised work spanning thirty years of wonder. She is singing for no good reason. She is running to meet you over a field of grass. —Brendan Constantine
Moore’s poems evoke paradox at its best: they are written with a harrowing awareness of pain, betrayal, and abandonment, yet their truthfulness, combined with the absence of self pity, brings comfort and peace. They leave this reader feeling very quiet . . . Moore experiences the world through her five senses, moment by moment, so that the reader is pulled—gently, precisely, and absolutely—into her space. The pain she expresses somehow works in the service of nurturing the reader. If anyone reading this review is a fan of Laura Jensen’s work, I highly recommend this book to you. — Marjorie Power