{"product_id":"under-the-pearl-moon-poems-paperback","title":"Under the Pearl Moon: poems - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eRick Maxson\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe gorgeous poems in \u003ci\u003eUnder the Pearl Moon\u003c\/i\u003e are accompanied by interludes of evocative memoir, where we travel with Rick from Ohio to Spain, California to Carolina, Texas to Florida-and more. (Maxson has moved more times than you can count, and with each move he's brought poetry forward to this crowning moment.) \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA lifetime of experience, gathered into a luminous book of poems, \u003ci\u003eUnder the Pearl Moon\u003c\/i\u003e takes you into the arms\u003cbr\u003eof love, wisdom, nature-and, of course, a glorious share of pearls and the moon. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e***\u003cbr\u003eRick Maxson is the \u003ci\u003eEvery Day Poems\u003c\/i\u003e permissions editor and a contributor at \u003ci\u003eTweetspeak Poetry\u003c\/i\u003e. His poems have been published in Tania Runyan's \u003ci\u003eHow to Read a Poem: Based on the Billy Collins Poem \"Introduction to Poetry\"\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eHow to Write a Form Poem: A Guided Tour of 10 Fabulous Forms, \u003c\/i\u003e as well as in Sara Barkat's\u003ci\u003e Earth Song: A Nature Poems Experience\u003c\/i\u003e. Maxon's work has also appeared on The Poetry Foundation's The Slowdown podcast. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e*** \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"I absolutely love this book. \u003ci\u003eUnder the Pearl Moon\u003c\/i\u003e is more than a collection of masterful poems; it is a chronicle of a well-lived life. Weaving prose pieces with poetry, Rick Maxson skillfully creates a rich personal mythology of geography and memory-from the 1950s to present day, from growing up in a Craftsman home in Columbus, Ohio, to adult life in rural romantic North Carolina, and then on to Florida. His paradise may in fact be along North Carolina's Eno River where he would 'so quietly live \/ among the particles of light and air, ' and yet his poem, 'Tree Frog, ' encapsulates the compelling, grand theme of the collection: 'You make me remember...the mysteries of the world...as I stumble in darkness with open eyes.'\" \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e-Dave Malone, author of \u003ci\u003eO: Love Poems from the Ozarks\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Rick Maxson's poems-interspersed with brief personal essays bridging the geographical and psychic residencies of his life-sing with birds living inside a Home Depot, scintillate with 'solder stars' from a father's glass workshop, and stick to our fingers like the powdery binding of a decaying book of fairy tales. In the sensory intricacies of Maxson's language, we find a poetry so personal, so singularly woven with the memories of a life lived reflectively, that we can't help but find our own stories in the pages. Reading these poems is like basking in shared moonlight.\" \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e-Tania Runyan, author of \u003ci\u003eHow to Read a Poem\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eHow to Write a Form Poem\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"In lines full of music and pleasure and longing, Rick Maxson plots the rivers of his life, offering glimpses of love and hardship, of the working-class neighborhood where he spent his boyhood, of his travels and travails, his parents' desires and desperation, and his own path into a life rich with change. By making art of memory, he reminds us that we are 'sounds living for a moment, each one \/ disappearing into the next, \/ then each one gone.'\" \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e-Todd Davis, author of \u003ci\u003eNative Species\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"In \u003ci\u003eUnder the Pearl Moon\u003c\/i\u003e, Richard Maxson brings several places into their fullness, exploring them through memory, relationship, rejection, and layer on layer of wonder and questioning. These poems, each with jewel-like detail, help to tell a story of longing, leaving, return, and promise.\" \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e-Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer, author of \u003ci\u003eAll the Honey\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"In this rich collection, lyrical prose adds historical and geographic context to reflective poems that follow. Moving across the U.S. and overseas proved traumatic \u003ci\u003eand\u003c\/i\u003e exciting to both the young and adult Maxson, and those experiences inform his writing. I especially enjoyed poems about his wife: 'I wait for the slender purl of your voice, ' and about his father: 'the beautiful energy of waves \/ breaking themselves over rocks into pools, \/ a larger love learned by loving.'\" \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e-Karen Paul Holmes, author of \u003ci\u003eNo Such Thing as Distance\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 102\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.24 x 8.5 x 5.5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e December 01, 2023\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54054631309619,"sku":"9781943120666","price":27.18,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0300\/5595\/6612\/files\/Vo59uQ1c269781943120666.webp?v=1789030308","url":"https:\/\/www.vysn.com\/products\/under-the-pearl-moon-poems-paperback","provider":"VYSN","version":"1.0","type":"link"}