Bøger af Keith Moul

Poets naturally search for meaning in all acts and gestures, then invest themselves in the discoveries made. With To Take and Have Not, Keith Moul has concluded a very long examination of his own and others' psychological relationships. For more than thirty years, Keith has literally re-mastered numerous versions of these poems until each is truly complete. He calls them "idiom" poems. Each begins with a common idiom that employs a "to take" infinitive that must then be mined for original riches; each is an exposition of a male and female couple's relationship; each enters new territory; each sets an objective suggested by the idiom used, then wrestles with discoveries. None of the poems offer answers to any questions.

As a volume of poems and photos, Reconsidered Light covers thousands of miles, through common scenes and unusual scenes, but each with provacative power that forced poetic responses to his photos by Keith Moul. He is powerless to resist capturing images that present themselves to him and is compelled often to mine those images for, what William Stafford, one of Keith's favorite poets, called "golden threads." Keith loves travel, especially by car, to any place with enough room to stop at the side of the road and record what he sees, views that many would pass without a second thought. Then he works those captured images into drama or beauty to his eye. His craft of poetry has evolved over more than 40 years to produce a calm, conversational cadence, in phrasings both lyric and narrative as appropriate to the images.

Keith Moul implies that most human activities conclude in several quite predictable results: success in light of the object; failure in light of the object; or in brutal competition, complete abandonment of the object in favor of new options C-Z. His chapbook of poems invest Keith in considerations of noble paths, but almost certain misdirection. Readers, therefore, may be alert to surprises, the compelling diversions of history, or language that in Keith's opinion will protect explorers of dark latitudes. In other words, watch out for idolatries that can arise innocently to capture you completely.