The Idea of the Garden
Moos, Michael S.
Poetry. Winner of the 2017 Richard Snyder Prize in Poetry. Poems by Michael Moos often occupy a liminal space at the edge of the garden about which he so often writes, that edge beyond which wildness begins, a wildness which Moos is not afraid to evoke in his poems. These poems are themselves gardens, spaces where human nature and the natural world can have conversations that are at once sacred and profane. 'What is thirst for, if not for talk...