Particular Scandals: A Book of Poems: 4 (Poiema Poetry)

Description: Broad in scope--theological ecological and personal--and acutely particular in details--witnessed and lived--the affecting poems in Particular Scandals explore how one endures suffering avoiding the clichés of both bitterness and transcendence. Thus while Moores poetry depicts the debilitating ruin illness wreaks it also embraces the beauty and mystery in creation in faith even in tribulation itself. At the books core is pure paradox and insightful integration wedding Christmas--Christs incarnation and eventual willing sacrifice--to pain and grief. Thus on the heels of Moores multiple surgeries and amid her husbands serious heart problem--both while in their forties--come flashes of hallelujah and songs knit with Amens un- / broken like a world without end. Empathetic and observant Moores evocative poems also turn their attention to friends and other family members appalling losses: a stillborn infant suicidal adolescents molested and trafficked children. All in all the book portrays how Moore survives like the Sycamore tree in one of her poems scabbed and scarred from moments like this offering her empty self / like a cup to the Lord of the storm.