If No Moon

Wind-whipped on the promontory of loss, these winged poems are heroic answers to the void that Linehan's painstaking work shows us is a door. - Jack Myers, former poet laureate of Texas and author of Routine Heaven ""What a welcome and brilliant debut is Moira Linehan's superb If No Moon. This moving and luminous volume contains profound meditations on loss, on the rituals of mourning the beloved, and on the poet's difficult pilgrimage from ""grief's labyrinth"" to an eventual willingness to embrace life again. Linehan's lyrical and precise poems honestly enact and reveal our paradoxical natures, our mystery enshrouded lives - our human frailty, and our surprising strengths and resilience."" - Maurya Simon, author of Ghost Orchid ""Moira Linehan's measure in image and language makes of love and of grief intensities that can be borne, just borne, and catharsis."" - Carol Frost, author of The Queen's Desertion