"Moran’s is an egalitarian poetry which will attract readers who do not usually read poetry and this is as great an achievement as any high modernist grail."
Matt Haw Poetry Salzburg Review, Austria
"Fierce argument is not his motive for writing poetry, but more a wish to repair and preserve time—with all the risks and opportunities that implies. Moran looks at the moment straight-on and makes it worthy of our attention. We are taught that unity, symmetry and beauty are judgments for art; I would add clarity, intensity and sincerity. These are real words for real people."
Grace Cavalieri The Washington Independent Review of Books
"Moran’s work is a refreshing change after the syntactical pyrotechnics which contemporary poetry sometimes offers. It is a relief to find work that seeks profundity in the everyday, without inversions, or obscurity."
Francis Spurrier Write Out Loud, London
"Moran writes about simple, seemingly insignificant, everyday occurrences and he marvels at them. This is certainly not to say he looks for meaning in these occurrences; he does not. Rather, he is satisfied with an unreasoned fascination."
Chloe Charalambous The Dundee Review, Scotland
"A deceptive simplicity and the clarity of intentions in his phrases from the very first poem to the last. I'm reading it over and over again."
Sofiul Azam Victoria University, Bangladesh
Foreword by Peter Quinn 11
Waiting in New Orleans 15
My Farmer’s Daughter 17
A Poem and a Chair 19
Seven Days in Cuba 20
Falling 21
Psychotherapy 22
The Dreaming of Cats 23
India 25
Rockets 27
Oh, Danny Boy 28
The Drums of Autumn 29
Paris Revisité 30
The Satin Man 31
Reading Gabriel García Márquez During an Unexpected April Snow 32
Occam’s Razor 34
Leonardo Flies Home 35
Last Night’s Game 37
Simple Summer Poem 38
Roses 39
Retorne a Casa 40
A Letter to My Strombolianos 41
October the Twenty-Eighth 42
The Cedar Waxwings 43
The Windward Passage 44
Theology 45
Ode to a Flat Mouse 46
Dear Honor 47
North from Boston 49
At Nompondo Village KwaZulu Natal, South Africa 51
In the Kingdom of Autumn 53
Beep 54
On a Flight to Boston 56
Saturday Morning in America-25 November 2017 57
Robert Frost Repairs a Lamp 59
The Marble Merchant of Jabalpur 60
Here, 61
The Man across the River 62
Tiger Hunting with Gregg Allman Last Night 64
Reading on the Porch on the Last Day of Summer 66
Obituaries 67
Accumulations 68
The Sheriff 70
The Sixties 72
Back on the North Fork of Long Island 73
Elegy for Homo sapiens 75
Being at Sea 76
Skittles and a Sacred Vision 77
Among the Wounded 78
New Hampshire 79
Palika Bazaar 81
Distracted 82
The Wind 83
The Inception of May 84
Charlottesville 85
Sfumato 86
Regarding Existence 87
Introduction to Romance 89
The Window 91
On the Occasion of the Funeral of Donald Hall 92
Salvation 93
Boating Through Jabalpur’s Marble Canyon 94
Life Savings 95
What Color is Blue? 97
To a Man Who Was My Father 98
An Accomplished Day 99
The 5th of July 101
Sundays 102
Amsterdam 103
To You Who Are Young 105
Here, in the Afterlife 107
And Once Again, November 108
Visitations 109
Dylan Goes Domestic 111
On The Queen Elizabeth-May 2015 112
The Life Well-Lived 113
To the Woman at the Party Last Night Who Just Had to Bring It Up 114
About the Author 116
