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WorksThe Bird Shaman
(Bascom Hill, 2008) "The Bird Shaman is, by genre standards, a very talky novel, but the conversation can be both intense and brilliant. It is also often quite erudite. [...] Like another author influenced by Quaker thought, Joan Slonczewski, she is fond of setting up situations where there is a potential for violence, and then solving them peacefully, against our genre-reinforced expectations." –Michael Levy, The New York Review of Science Fiction Whinny Moor Crossing
(Princeton University Press, 1984) This is Moffett's second collection. Most poems are cast in received or nonce forms, and include a group with a Cambridge setting and another located in Stockholm. The technical influence of James Merrill's work is unmistakable, though most of the subjects that engage Moffett are very different from those that interest Merrill. The North! To the North! Five Swedish Poets of the Nineteenth Century
(Southern Illinois University Press, 2001) The poets are Esaias Tegnér (1782-1846), Johan Ludvig Runeberg (1804-1877), Viktor Rydberg (1828-1895), Gustaf Fröding (1860-1911), and Erik Axel Karlfeldt (1864-1931). Each is a world-class literary figure working in a minor language; a comparable list for the English 1800s would include Wordsworth, Coleridge, Byron, Keats, Shelley, Arnold, and Tennyson. |
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