Night Singer: The Collected Poems of Frank D. Moore

Table of contents

I. The Traveller’s Rest Poems (1995)

• Poem for Grandmother
• Traveller’s Rest, Kentucky
• Grandfather
• Learning to Read
• Family
• Burning the Tobacco Bed
• The Furious Hat
• Mother, Money, the Children
• Miss Anne
• Ruling the Roost
• The Wall
• Hail
• Father in the Dark
• April Creek
• Cousin George and the Snake
• Picnic at the Family Cemetery
• The Visit
• The Rocker

II. Philadelphia

• Seeing through Cataracts
• Nearly Extinct
  
• for Jeremy on his first birthday
• Chair
• Fires
• The Kiss
• Shading into Fall
• Living Room
• Morning in Ralph, Alabama
• The Best Man
• Yellow Glee
• The Need to Sing

III. Traveller’s Rest, II

• In the Morning Before Light
• Haircut
• The Two Aunts
• Grandmother’s Back
• Kiss at the Gate
• In Between
• In the Outhouse
• Dancing on the Schoolyard with Peggy Pierson
• The Root Cellar
• Words in Appalachia
• Found Christmas Note
• Hot Nights: Louisville, 1952, Age 16
• Maternal Uncle
• The Hard Bright Images of Your Passing
• Night Singer

IV. Santa Fe

• At the Shrine of D. H. Lawrence
• Headswim
• The Ravens of Santa Fe
• Guide
• Palestinian Child
• Song of Your Voice on the Phone
• In Praise of Your Extremities
• “Peppery,”
• Light
• Touch, Loss, Touch
• Woman in aYellow Dress
• Weaving the Voices in Iowa City
• Lilacs and Grape Arbor

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