Alterity Author:Ronald E. Moore For Ronald Moore, poetry is a vehicle for moral and philosophical truth, and many of the poems in this powerful first collection, poems like Winter in an Empty Cathedral, recall the integrity of Hardy. Others, such as Not without Puccini and Poetry as a Last Alternative, reflect Moores love affair with music and with poetry. And then there are... more » poems like The Real Funeral and One Turn to Arkansas that touch on truths about family and love. But these are not simply poems of philosophy and abstraction; these are poems grounded in transitions, travels, travails, and smiles. These are poems of striking imagery and lyric intnesity, poems of persons and things. Ronald Moore is a poet who acknowledges the beauty, sadness, and the occasional joy that is the result of the search. Indeed, Alterity mixes subject matter and form so well that the poems often seem, in their refinement and elegance, to be brushed by music. Alterity is a collection that is bound to delight both the mind and the ear.« less