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"In this debut collection, Moore (Henrietta the Guard Chicken, 2006) offers poems borne from a struggle that enlightens, uplifts, and heals. T.S. Eliot's epoch-making The Waste Land opens with trauma and a "heap of broken images" but ends with hope. That hope arrives in the form of a single word: Shantih, a Sanskrit term that means peace, calmness, or tranquility. Moore's verse cleaves to a similar pattern. It begins, she writes, with the unexpected, traumatic death of her mother when she is just 12 years old. Yet this tragedy sets her on a spiritual and creative path...