A Difficult Moon

About the Book

An opaque haiku telescopes into a schizophrenic free verse that conflates the end of a relationship with the Apocalypse, against a background of radio telescope noise… A torch/breakup song expands into a lyrical sonnet mourning the loss of the Earth itself as a lover… A metered open verse describes the “tightrope” walked between aspiring to a new consciousness and falling back into the old… The mental constructs that call the author back into the prior state are enumerated and finally transcended. These are the four core poems of A Difficult Moon.

About the Author

The author’s primary education was from 1957 until 1966 in Rochester, New York, at St. Thomas the Apostle School, which provided a traditional Roman Catholic curriculum, including Latin mass and dogma. He entered West Irondequoit High School in 1966, graduating in 1970. He earned undergraduate degrees from the State University of New York and Southern Illinois University and did graduate work at the New York Institute of Technology. In 1994 he was shot twice and nearly killed resisting an assault by an unknown assailant, sustaining gun shot wounds to the leg and head. A bullet remains lodged in the left occipital bone of his skull to this day. He is a long time practitioner of Transcendental Meditation.