Books by Ronald Moran

"The most beautiful irony of Ronald Moran's…The Blurring of Time¿is the intense clarity with which the poet reveals his particular yet unsentimental journey through time. The poet weaves the sensory details of real and imaginary events of his life into an elegiac tapestry, which becomes a holy shroud for the embodied spirit of a man who is facing the narrow end of a well-shared life."--Karen Luddy

The great poems are poems of retrieval or thanks or both, and Ronald Moran's plain-spoken, affecting lyrics are squarely in this last category. He searches for and finds the people, now gone, who made his life what it is: his parents, the girls he dated, his beloved wife Jane. In doing so, this grateful, gifted poet teaches us how to burrow into and recognize the riches in our own lives. -David Kirby, on Eye of the World

"Another source of pleasure in these poems derives from Moran's facility with language and with complex sentences, in particular.…This technique creates an impressive sense of the interconnectedness of experience without the breathless rush of Whitman, the Beats or other long-lined poets"

Moran uses plain language to great effect, crafting narrative poems that are compelling and self-contained, but when linked together in this collection, create a poignant love story and in a sense, a how-to-manual for living with the hardships of a long illness, surviving the loss of a loved one and coping with the grief and isolation that follows.-Richard Allen Taylor

Vetaran poet Ronald Moran has provided yet another witty and approachable collection of poetry. The language is eminently understandable with a sense of sound, image, phrasing, and form. From quiet meditations on a moment to deeper engagements with love and loss, Moran offers something for all readers of poetry.