Venison - by Thorpe Moeckel (Paperback)

About the Book

At stake are no less than the origins and mysteries of flesh and touch---food.

Book Synopsis

"Part orison, part ecstatic vision, part post-Lapsarian psalm, Venison turns the act of dressing/blessing a buck into rumination on 'the red path' of laboring, bloodshed, making, and the search for meaning that marks the human fall from paradise into time."-- Lisa Russ Spaar

Food doesn't get any more local, cosmic, primitive, tasty, or disturbing than in this book-length, lyrical-meditative poem. At stake are no less than the origins and mysteries of flesh and touch.

Thorpe Moeckel teaches at Hollins University and is the author of two books of poems--Odd Botany and Making a Map of the River.

Review Quotes

ISLE Vol. 16, No. 2, Spring 2009 Shenandoah Vol. 58, No. 3, Winter 2008 http: //www.blackbird.vcu.edu/v8n1/nonfiction/macdonald_c/roeser_page.shtml "Moeckel's poems are dense with the vocabulary and sensibility of a naturalist, intent on writing the physicality of a wild landscape and the experience of moving through it and being shaped by it." --Blackbird

About the Author

Thorpe Moeckel teaches in the writing program at Hollins University. He is the author of two books of poems--Odd Botany (Silverfish Review Press, 2002) and Making a Map of the River (Iris Press, 2008). His work has appeared in such journals as Field, Open City, The Antioch Review, Poetry Daily, Orion, Poetry, The Southern Review, and Virginia Quarterly Review.