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Reconstructing Eden
A Southern Bastard’s Lyric Journey
Brief Description
Combining unsettling imagery with inventive form, this powerful collection explores the inner struggle to resist violence. In Reconstructing Eden, Indigo Moor performs an exorcism of a childhood shaped by the dizzying racism that once drove him to the brink of murder. Using a poetic form that...
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Description
Combining unsettling imagery with inventive form, this powerful collection explores the inner struggle to resist violence.
In Reconstructing Eden, Indigo Moor performs an exorcism of a childhood shaped by the dizzying racism that once drove him to the brink of murder. Using a poetic form that Moor calls jazz triptych—a tercet followed by a nonstandard villanelle, followed by a rhyme royal stanza—the book is a stunning rendering of a Black child moving through life with a smouldering anger emerging within him.
Only through an incredibly violent act while deployed in Operation Desert Storm does the author realise the murderous intent in his heart. Through his lyrical poetry, he begins to cleanse himself.
Book Details
INFORMATION
ISBN: 9781960327185
Publisher: CavanKerry Press
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 03 March 2026
Country: United States
Imprint: CavanKerry Press
Illustration: 21 line drawings
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 13.0mm
Width: 152.0mm
Height: 229.0mm
Weight: 172g
Pages: 96
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About the Author
Indigo Moor is Poet Laureate Emeritus of Sacramento. His books include Everybody's Jonesin' for Something, Through the Stonecutter's Window, Tap-Root, and In the Room of Thirsts & Hungers. Moor taught as visiting faculty for Dominican University's MFA program.
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