The Room Within : Poems.
- 1st ed.
- 1 online resource (99 pages)
Intro -- Cover -- Half title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- part one -- Winter Arriving -- To the Golden Gate Bridge -- Bees -- The Face -- Late in the Night -- My Poem in the Lobby at Hewlett-Packard -- Near the Veterans' Mental Hospital -- Rimbaud and His Muse -- Sunday Movie -- Hydroplane -- Four -- View from a Barcelona Hotel Room -- Home Sick -- Low Tide at Loreto -- The Room Within -- Sir Walter Raleigh to His Wife -- That Breakfast -- On Wyeth's Below Dover -- Boo at Seventeen -- Walking -- Muse -- The Truth Concerning the Pizza in Monterey -- Those Who Pray for Us -- The Gypsies -- Ordinary Time in the Pews -- Les Derniers Jours d'Eloise -- Somebody's Mother's Good Blanket -- When Paris Lay at Helen's Side -- Utah Dawn -- Outside Truckee -- Star Dust -- When You Return -- part two -- Monterey County I -- Monterey County II -- Monterey County III -- Monterey County IV -- Monterey County V -- Monterey County VI -- Monterey County VII -- Monterey County VIII -- Ord -- Just Joking -- Hand-Me-Down Lace -- April Kitten -- Paris, After -- Dawn with You -- Silent Night -- A Balmy Night in Barstow -- Third Daughter -- Early Augustine's Late Taxi -- Above Santa Cruz -- 6:30 Mass -- Here's Looking at Us -- The Play's the Sting -- Imaginary Voyages III -- Dog Days in Puerto Vallarta -- Not Regardless of My Love -- Boot Camp -- Parish Girls -- Horseman, 5:14 -- Sleeping Beauty -- The Way of the Cross -- Holy Thursday -- Nightpiece -- The Other Cheek -- Old Silver -- Today in Time.
The Room Within is a retrospective survey of a poetic career dating back to the late fifties. A student of Yvor Winters at Stanford, Moore Moran has deservedly earned a reputation, along with fellow Winters students Turner Cassity and Edgar Bowers, as a "poet's poet.".