Tree In The Wall

by George Moore

“...a quiet and subtle language that steadily engages with and sifts the evidence with the sensitivity and integrity that only the true poet is able to bring to our lives.”

— Vern Rutsala, 2005 National Book Award finalist

“Although Tree in the Wall draws on the streams, mountains, and lakes of northern Saskatchewan, with evocative glimpses of that region’s wild geese, wolves, and birches, its poems evoke their wilderness setting to explore the topology of being. In language keenly aware of its own limits, poem after poem becomes an intriguing meditation rich with re-readability.”

— Reg Saner, Winner of The Walt Whitman Award & The National Poetry Series

Tree in the Wall by George Moore is a new collection of poems written while exploring the lake country of northern Saskatchewan, Canada. “The days were filled with nothing but writing whatever first stirred me to create, often the wilderness itself. What I had imagined as a writers’ retreat turned out to be a retreat for one, myself. But what I experienced in those two weeks could not have been more valuable. I discovered something of myself in that remote region, something of the nature of my writing, indeed, of my very language, that I could not have foretold. I was forced back on the immediacy of my feelings in a place that heightened my experience of the now, of the moment, cast loose from the daily worries and longer projects of my life back in Colorado.”

Read a couple sample poems from Tree In The Wall

George Moore

George Moore’s poetry has appeared in The Atlantic Monthly, Poetry, North American Review, Colorado Review, Orion, American Literary Review, Nimrod and Southern Poetry Review, and his books have been finalists for the National Poetry Series, the Brittingham Poetry Award and the Anhinga Poetry Prize.

His collections include All Night Card Game in the Backroom of Time (an online eBook, 2006), Headhunting (Edwin Mellen, 2002), The Petroglyphs at Wedding Rocks and Other Poems (Edwin Mellen, 1997), and The Long Way Around (Wyndham Hall, 1992).

George Moore was a finalist in The 2006 Richard Snyder Memorial Poetry Competition from Ashland Poetry Press, Ashland Ohio.

He has also published a study of Gertrude Stein’s novels, Gertrude Stein’s The Making of Americans: Repetition and the Emergence Modernism (Peter Lang Publishing, Inc., 1998). He is presently working on a motorcycle travel narrative, The Lone Rider’s Guide to the American West.

George Moore teaches Literature and Creative Writing with the Honors Department at the University of Colorado, Boulder, and lives in the mountains west of town.