Salt Moon

Salt Moon

by Noel Crook
Salt Moon

Salt Moon

by Noel Crook

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Overview

Crab Orchard Review First Book Prize 
Co-Winner, Julie Suk Prize
Finalist, INDIEFAB Book fo the Year

Throughout Salt Moon, Noel Crook forges the kind of tragic vision Howard Nemerov described as the mark of our finest poets: drawing on myth and memory, Crook’s fierce lyrics reveal a world that is at once “hopeless and beautiful . . . giving equal emphasis to both words.” Sacrifice and betrayal, parental love and patricide, unleashed desire and cornered despair—these antitheses fuel Crook’s Ovidian imagination, which ranges freely from Comanche raids in Texas to a slave plantation in North Carolina, from a carpet maker in Istanbul to beggars in Delhi, from her daughter’s hospital room to the war in Iraq. Rendered in unforgettable images, Salt Moon is that rare book which grows richer with each reading.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780809333875
Publisher: Southern Illinois University Press
Publication date: 02/04/2015
Series: Crab Orchard Series in Poetry
Edition description: 1st Edition
Pages: 80
Product dimensions: 5.90(w) x 8.80(h) x 0.40(d)

About the Author

Noel Crook is a poetry editor for Sun Editions. Her poems have been published in Best New Poets, New Letters, Shenandoah, Smartish Pace, and other journals. She lives in Raleigh, North Carolina.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments ix

Dark Country

Big Sky 3

Owl 5

The Slaves 7

Crows 9

Storm 11

Dark Country 12

The Twins 14

House 15

Evening News

Turner's Suns 21

On the Road to Agra 22

War Photo 24

Evening News 25

Skull 26

The Mistake 27

"Mercy" 28

The Secret Lives of Animals 29

Dog Heart 31

Demeter in the Pediatric Ward 32

Piano Teacher 33

Lice 34

Notes From a Salt Flat Prisoner

Melancholia 37

Orion's Belt 38

Notes from a Salt Flat Prisoner 39

Coyotes 40

Prey 41

Trap 43

Helen 44

At the Party for Her Husband 46

Bob & Wheel 47

On the Whitney Exhibition Picasso and American Art 48

Field-of-Flowers 49

Comanche Trace

Smith Canyon 53

The Sunday Swim, Comanche Trace 54

First Kill 55

Spotlighting 56

Matilda Lockhart, Age 13, Abducted by Comanches 58

The Horse Graveyard 59

Reading Ovid at Buzzard Rocks 61

Song 63

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