Crab Orchard Review Vol. 12, No. 2, our

the Crab Orchard Series
in Poetry
Series Editor, Jon Tribble
“What I admire about this book of soulful poems is
their willingness to engage in the deeper aspects of
melancholy while at the same time remaining fully
anchored in the world of the generous everyday.
Honest, tough, questing and questioning, these
starkly elegiac poems are made not only from the
pain of grief, but also from grief ’s simple rewards:
awareness, forgiveness, clarity of being.”
—Dorianne Laux, author of Facts About the Moon
Copublished with
Crab Orchard Review
69 pages
ISBN 0-8093-2761-9, $14.95 paper
2006 Open Competition Award
If No Moon
Poems by
Moira Linehan
“What a welcome and brilliant debut is
Moira Linehan’s superb If No Moon. This
moving and luminous volume contains
profound meditations on loss, on the
rituals of mourning the beloved, and on
the poet’s difficult pilgrimage from ‘grief ’s
labyrinth’ to an eventual willingness to
embrace life again. Linehan’s lyrical and
precise poems honestly enact and reveal
our paradoxical natures, our mystery
enshrouded lives —our human frailty, and
our surprising strengths and resilience.”
—Maurya Simon, author of Ghost Orchid
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