Jane Poems - by Ronald Moran (Paperback)

About the Book

Book Synopsis

Moran uses plain language to great effect, crafting narrative poems that are compelling and self-contained, but when linked together in this collection, create a poignant love story and in a sense, a how-to-manual for living with the hardships of a long illness, surviving the loss of a loved one and coping with the grief and isolation that follows.
--Richard Allen Taylor

Review Quotes

Not since Donald Hall's poems about the fatal illness of his wife Jane Kenyon has a poet so delicately evoked the illness of his wife, another Jane, in this collection.
--George S. Lensing

[The Jane Poems] just about broke my heart. The pain is so palpable--and yet the poems are beautifully controlled, always alert to sound, image, phrasing, never a drop of self-pity.
--Kelly Cherry

Moran uses plain language to great effect, crafting narrative poems that are compelling and self-contained, but when linked together in this collection, create a poignant love story and in a sense, a how-to-manual for living with the hardships of a long illness, surviving the loss of a loved one and coping with the grief and isolation that follows.
--Richard Allen Taylor

One could do well to come to the end of life with someone like Ronald Moran in attention--someone caring and solicitous to a dying person's needs, someone willing to write about the death journey--not just the love and small joys; but the doubts, missteps, and insecurities as well.
--Susan Laughter Meyers