The Mouth of Home

By Janell Moon

Poetry. Janell Moon's is an absolutely original voice. With wicked humor and a compassionate eye, Janell deftly tackles the conundrums of family, lesbian love, aging. She brings to her writing the raw, risky honesty that only a strong poet can. Roaming from her girlhood in a small Ohio town, to dreams after a friend's suicide, to the tricky balance on a San Francisco hillside, she confronts the fractures of identity and how we make our place in the world --Dorthy Wall. When morning broke, there was a moment/ when light and dark shone in balance/ and if we really focused,/ we could see what was left,/ what was worthy. (The Burning).

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0965701522
• ISBN13: 9780965701525
• Release Date: January 1999
• Publisher: Arctos Press
• Length: 63 Pages
• Weight: 0.30 lbs.

Customer Reviews

the mouth of home

Reading The Mouth of Home is a sensorium for all the various senses. Arousing wonder and awe in the elements that surround our being which are normally comsumed by the daily rote. Feeling the raw observations of Carl Sandburg and the cleansing revival of Walt Whitman in the textured poesy. Janelle Moon has certainly achieved a paragon for the infusion of reflection and inspiration for our contemporary lives. Thank you Ms Moon for the awakening!