A Series of Moments by Noah B. Salamon
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If, as E. L. Doctorow suggests, the point of writing “is to evoke sensation . . . not the fact that it is raining, but the feeling of being rained upon,” then we are in good hands with Noah Salamon. So often, in his modestly titled A Series of Moments, I have to pause at the end of each line to savor each fleeting sensation—rendered economically, yet dizzyingly—before its dissolve into the next frame of mini-cinema. Perhaps his goal is not so much to see as to become a fish. It’s not surprising, then, when the poems fan out toward personae and portraiture, yet subtly enough that the borderlines between self and other may blur. I’m left with a sense of the embodied ineffable—as though some distinctly 21stcentury loneliness echoes through oil-smeared rain on the night drive home, full of hints of the costs of choices not lived, as well as the comfort of all that is embraced.
–Sarah Maclay, author of Music for the Black Room and co-author of The “She” Series: A Venice Correspondence.
Lyrical and profound, Noah Salamon‘s A Series of Moments is many things: a brilliant celebration of the natural world, an intimate contemplation of origins, a literary conversation across time and space. Consider it a book of devotionals for modern times—a source of inspiration, reflection, and awe.
–Julia Lee, Assistant Professor at Loyola Marymount University and author of By The Book, a novel.
To enter A Series of Moments is to be engulfed in Salamon’s close observation of the natural world, childhood, passion, literature and prayer. These are hard won poems, threaded together with glowing images that challenge assumptions, invite speculation and, ultimately, draw the reader into their quiet.
–Jane Otto, author of At the Home for Wayward Girls, a memoir in verse, and Trustee of the Poetry Society of America.
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