Chris Forhan, The ACTUAL MOON, The ACTUAL STARS-VERY FINE-SIGNED & INSCRIBED-PBK

Description: Chris Forhan, The ACTUAL MOON, The ACTUAL STARS (The 2003 Morse Poetry Prize), a VERY FINE, UNREAD, SIGNED & INSCRIBED Paperback from Northeastern University Press, with an introduction by Robert Cording. 65 pages. From Robert Cording: "'Over and over again, these poems shape the tensions that arise from Stevens's 'ever restless mind' and the world around us, , , ,Only the man speaker asks, 'what is one to do' on a perfectly beautiful night when a fern 'rooted at the road's edge/casts the shadow of an infant's ribs' 'No Comment,' this collection's first poem, is Forhan's wonderfully wry answer. . . .Thankfully, Chris Forhan cannot hold his tongue, and the poems that follow--often lit by a playful sense of humor and a voice that is truly engaging--he creates a landscape that is both intensely physical and replete with the age-old questions. "'. . . .these poems know how, in Richard Wilbur's phrase, 'to keep their difficult balance.' Though they are always seeking understanding, always moving out towards the world rather than inward, toward the self, they are also self-deprecating, quick-witted , and full of surprising turns. "'At their best, Chris Forhan's poems have a jester's wisdom. Throughout The ACTUAL MOONM The ACTUAL STARS, the reader follows a trustworthy guide who is always led by Tolstoy's great question: How then shall we live? Though Chris Forhan does not presume to answer, he lives the question, as Rilke advised, in all its complexity. And, in doing so, his arm, wise, and inventive poems help us to come face-to-face with a world that is 'incoherent,' ' addressed to no one,' but 'therefore unless and beautiful.'"

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