For decades, the poetry of Daniel Edward Moore has been featured in some of the country's most prestigious literary journals. Now, for the first time, many of his works appear together in one eclectic, thought-provoking volume: Confessions of a Pentecostal Buddhist.
As the title suggests, some of the twenty-three poems in the collection center on spiritual themes such as meditation, childhood experiences with organized religion, and family members' beliefs. Others tackle topics as diverse as nature, death, love, EKGs, and frogging. Some are deeply personal and addressed to people in Moore's life, while others focus on universal concerns that have the power to widen chasms between people or bring them together.
By turns sensual and reflective, plaintive and passionate, the poems showcase Moore's virtuosic ability to conjure a mood through vivid imagery and striking metaphor. Narrated from a multitude of viewpoints-the husband's, male lover's, abused son's, estranged father's, addict's-the disparate voices combine to produce the effect of speaking in tongues.
For Moore, writing poetry is cathartic, and the poems gathered here are intended to help others break down real and imagined walls around religion, gender, and sexual identity while revealing the healing and hurtful power of words.
About the Author: Daniel Edward Moore is a transplanted southern poet who has lived in the Northwest for the last nineteen years. His poems have been published in The American Literary Review, Western Humanities Review, Cream City Review, Mid-American Review, and other journals. Six of his poems appear in the anthology This New Breed: Gents, Bad Boys, and Barbarians, which was published in 2004 by Windstorm Creative Press.
Moore has been recognized by notable poets such as Marilyn Hacker, who selected his poem "A Bethlehem Morning" for an honorable mention in River Styx Magazine. Moore has also won several other poetry contests in journals.
He and his wife, visual artist Laura Coe Moore, live on Whidbey Island in Washington State.
For more information, visit his website: http: //www.danieledwardmoore.com.
