Synopses & Reviews
Synopsis
Lenard D. Moore's Long Rain is a book of exquisite tanka poems, similar to haiku, and short prose haibun, organized around the elements: Earth, Wind, Fire, Water. Yes, these poems capture a series of detailed moments, primarily set in the American South, but they also employ an energetic fragmentary language to express the flow of experience in a way that gives the book a surprising sense of movement.
Synopsis
Long Rain is an exquisite collection of five line poems (tanka) and short prose (haibun), organized around the elements: Earth, Wind, Fire and Water. Here, Moore expands on the rich history of African-American writers such as Richard Wright, Sonya Sanchez and James Emanuel, creating a masterful transformation of the Japanese tradition into a sharply observant and quietly defiant poetry of the Black experience in America.