Your Moon

by Ralph Angel

Poetry. "Ralph Angel possesses what every poet dreams of—a warm heart and a cold eye—and all of his poems have a foothold between Everything and Nothing, the place each of us lives in day in and day out, though we seldom recognize or admit it the way these poems do. Many of them unfold like a ravishing film to which a voice-over adds such haunting commentary we are surprised to reach the end and realize we have been reading. His vernacular arrests me. A thread of wild and somber beauty runs through this book by one of America's most original poets."—Mary Ruefle

Genres: Poetry

64 pages, Paperback

First published March 24, 2014

Reviews

[Darrin Kramer · Rating 3 out of 5]

A master of revealing the cold world that people inhabit and the life they live. He writes about real struggles with vivid detail. After reading the book, I realized that I have lived a wonderful and peaceful life for which I am every so grateful, without the sad drama. You may come away appreciating the life you have lived so far, or you may feel you relate to the characters.

[Gerry LaFemina · Rating 4 out of 5]

Angel's lyric poems are often powerful and captivating, capturing the emotion-fraught image, the musical possibilities of the American line. This is a poet who juxtaposes the traditionally beautiful with the dark underbelly of our lives to bring us the real but small dilemmas of being human.

[Jessica · Rating 5 out of 5]

Ralph Angel really knows how to poem. This book is beautiful and made/helped me to feel a lot of feelings.

[Katie]

"Conversation"
"Three Figures"
"Holding You Sober Close to Me"
"Vacuum Cleaner"