TY - BOOK ID - 78491663 TI - Salt moon PY - 2015 SN - 0809333880 9780809333882 9780809333875 0809333872 PB - Carbondale [Illinois] DB - UniCat KW - POETRY / General. KW - POETRY / American / General. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:78491663 AB - Throughout Salt Moon, Noel Crook forges the kind of tragic vision Howard Nemerov described as the mark of our finest poets: drawing on myth and memory, Crook's fierce lyrics reveal a world that is at once "hopeless and beautiful . . . giving equal emphasis to both words." Sacrifice and betrayal, parental love and patricide, unleased desire and cornered despair-these antitheses fuel Crook's Ovidian imagination, which ranges freely from Comanche raids in Texas to a slave plantation in North Carolina, from a carpet maker in Istanbul to beggars in Delhi, from her daughter's hospital room to the wa ER -