{"product_id":"moon-road-poems-1986-2005-paperback","title":"Moon Road: Poems, 1986-2005 - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eRon Smith\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom poems of memory and family through its extraordinary voyaging sequences \"Via Appia\" and \"To Ithaca,\" Ron Smith's \u003ci\u003eMoon Road\u003c\/i\u003e embodies the experiences and some of the more elusive lessons of marriage, fatherhood, teaching, sports, and travel. Domestic poems give way to poems of pilgrimage and witness, to poems of literary homage and metaphysical questioning. A mind nurtured in the mid-twentieth-century Deep South drifts north and west and finally abroad, and sometimes into visionary, mysterious pasts. With skeptical reverence, the poems hunger for and dramatize a search for immanence and transcendence. Many poems examine the fear of meaninglessness, the griefs of separation and alienation, and the limits as well as the powers of language.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eRon Smith\u003c\/b\u003e was Poet Laureate of Virginia from 2014 to 2016. He holds the George Squires Chair of Distinguished Teaching and serves as Writer-in-Residence at St. Christopher's School in Richmond, Virginia, where he has also been an adjunct associate professor at the University of Richmond. Smith is the author of these poetry collections: \u003ci\u003eRunning Again in Hollywood Cemetery\u003c\/i\u003e (1988, second edition 2020), \u003ci\u003eMoon Road\u003c\/i\u003e (2007), \u003ci\u003eIts Ghostly Workshop\u003c\/i\u003e (2013), and \u003ci\u003eThe Humility of the Brutes \u003c\/i\u003e(2017).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 72\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.23 x 8.99 x 6.08 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e October 01, 2007\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47406579318962,"sku":"9780807132715","price":21.55,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0770\/3891\/1666\/files\/2b68644ba709a6894bf823b45ac2429c.webp?v=1778203454","url":"https:\/\/box.dadyminds.org\/products\/moon-road-poems-1986-2005-paperback","provider":"DADYMINDS BOX","version":"1.0","type":"link"}