Saint Agnes Outside the Walls - Paperback

by Rachel L. Macaulay (Editor), George Moore (Author)

SAINT AGNES OUTSIDE THE WALLS returns us to Moore's familiar concerns with a humanity bonded by sacrifice and insight. Although named for the small, 4th-century chapel "outside the walls" of Rome, the poems move from historical moments in a shared European/American identity to present-day encounters with remarkable people and events. On these landscape, cultures mingle and truths are blurred by the power of desire. The poetry captures these movements by sudden turns of phrase, or even slippage, as metaphors map the route of the traveler, enquirer, and interlocutor. From ancient Rome to China, from Iceland to Portugal, in the thoughts of "martyrs" and "illuminati," the poems question Catholicism, Buddhism, and other faces of belief, as we are asked to test these truths against the ironic events of the human world.

Author Biography

George Moore lives with his wife, a Canadian poet, on the south shore of Nova Scotia. His recent collections include Children's Drawings of the Universe (Salmon Poetry, 2015) and The Hermits of Dingle (FutureCycle Press, 2013). Moore's poems have been published in The Atlantic, Poetry, North American Review, Arc, Orbis, and other journals internationally.