The poems in Writing the Silences represent more than 60 years of Richard O. Moore s work as a poet. Selected from seven full-length manuscripts written between 1946 and 2008, these poems reflect not only Moore s place in literary historyhe is the last of his generation of the legendary group of San Francisco Renaissance poetsbut also his reemergence into today s literary world after an important career as a filmmaker and producer in public radio and television. Writing the Silences reflects Moore s commitment to freedom of form, his interest in language itself, and his...