The Moon and Other Failures

This collection presents new lyrics and a long dramatic narrative by F.D. Reeve. They are meditative works, weaving memories, mythic figures, personal reflections and natural observances to arrive at larger truths. The Moon and Other Failures presents two dozen new lyrics and a long dramatic narrative by F.D. Reeve, winner of the Golden Rose for lifelong poetic achievement. Reeve is a thinking-person's poet-meditative, weaving memories, mythic figures, personal reflections, and natural observances to arrive at larger truths. The short poems range from the elegiac "Village Graveyard" and philosophical "Coasting", a poem of almost perfect proportions, to such love poems as "Voices", and the witty "Telephone". Some of the poems express the sadness of irrecoverable loss; some the inevitability; and some rejoice in consequent rebirth and renewal. Repeatedly, throughout the book, the past is brought up against the present, this world against the next, the particular against the general.