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Tuesday
Apr052011

Tonight - Jim Moore Publication Reading at The Loft

Time: 7:00pm

Location: The Loft, 1011 Washington Avenue South, Target Performance Hall

Graywolf Press and The Loft celebrate the publication of the latest poetry collection by Jim Moore, Invisible Strings.

A founding member of the Loft Literary Center, Jim Moore is the author of six previous books of poetry, including Lightning at Dinner. He lives in St. Paul and Spoleto, Italy, with his wife, the photographer JoAnn Verburg.

About Invisible Strings
Brief, jagged, haiku-like, Jim Moore’s poems in Invisible Strings observe time moving past us moment by moment. In that accrual, line by line, is the anxiety and acceptance of aging, the mounting losses of friends to death or divorce, the accounting of frequent-flyer miles and cups of coffee, and the poet’s own process of writing. It is a world of both diminishment and triumphs. Moore has assembled his most emotionally direct and lyrically spare collection, one that amounts to his book of days, seasons, and stark realizations.

“The moods [Moore] evokes include wistfulness, of course, and the deeper, more poignant ones of love and grief. . . . The experiences giving rise to the poems are the poet’s, and there’s no need to think the poet isn’t Moore, whose art consists of successfully making himself and the reader identical, so that this book will be turned to, by those to and for whom it speaks, again and again and again.”

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