{"product_id":"moon-grammar-9781639821563","title":"Moon Grammar","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn the opening poem of Matthew Porto's dazzling debut collection, we hear the voice of the recurring angel figure for the first time, commanding us to \"Get used to the light.\" That light-blinding, mysterious, unsettling, but occasionally illuminating-shows up again and again in Porto's taut, elegant poems. As he writes in another poem: \"Some light, it's true, makes it to us, but always \/ refractory, errant, struggling to deign downward.\" \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe occasions for these poems range from encounters with ancient biblical and mythological tropes to fresh translations of elegiac Anglo-Saxon verse to sojourns from Texas to Taiwan and Vermont to Venice.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHolding everything together-the themes of love and responsibility, memory and forgetfulness, loss and hope-is the grammar of the moon, ever-changing, yet ever-present. Here is a fully mature poetic voice, one which former U.S. Poet Laureate Robert Pinsky rightly hails as \"ingeniously alert, compelling, and unpredictable.\" \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Matthew Porto\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Slant Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/30\/2024\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 96\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.33lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.23d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781639821563\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003ePorto, Matthew:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - Matthew Porto is an Italian-American poet from Long Island, NY. He holds a PhD in English from Texas Tech University and an MFA in poetry from Boston University. His first collection, Moon Grammar, appeared with Slant Books in 2024. He lives in Boston, MA, where he a professor of English at Berklee College of Music.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Slant Books","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44087021928563,"sku":"9.78164E+12","price":19.25,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/files\/img_4a58b912-c16d-4c85-9cb8-bac2c1e9b6c1.jpg?v=1763124081","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/products\/moon-grammar-9781639821563","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}