{"product_id":"motion-against-our-moorings-paperback-2","title":"Motion Against Our Moorings - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJoseph Powell\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eLana Hechtman Ayers\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor in Chief)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the title poem of \u003cem\u003eMotion Against Our Moorings\u003c\/em\u003e, Joseph Powell writes, \"Love is the rope stretching into the invisible.\/\/How deeply we believe in the thinnest tethers.\/What's spirit but motion against our moorings.\" These poems consider love's intricacies, intimacies, its loss and return. They echo Frost's notion \"Earth's the place for love\" and capture its ethereal mysteries with compassion, humor, and respect. A line from \"Prayer\" shows the collection's impact; the poems \"relight that candle in the dark window of yourself.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e-Kevin Miller, author of \u003cem\u003eSpring Meditation\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJoseph Powell begins in childhood; he closes, blessing those gone from us. In between, his precise diction, rhyme, half-rhyme, and an ear for sound guide us through love, pain, and the humdrum daily. Powell explores the heart's readiness despite its being \"snagged and torn.\" After a lover's fight, the offer of basil seed is forgiveness. \"Words [. . .] miraculously made visible\" lead us through aging, guys at the bar, rodeo, music, hunting-his poems to his mother, losing her memory, touching deeply.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e-Alice Derry, author of \u003cem\u003eAsking\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 112\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.27 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e July 31, 2025\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47353898041593,"sku":"9798989948833","price":20.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0789\/2782\/3097\/files\/4iFe-wGUqJ9798989948833_a9c9d24c-3421-42ec-8ade-55a006c63e04.webp?v=1769828752","url":"https:\/\/bookscloud.io\/products\/motion-against-our-moorings-paperback-2","provider":"BooksCloud Book Dropshipping","version":"1.0","type":"link"}