The Clock of the Long Now, Poems by Annabelle Moseley

Annabelle Moseley's poems treat timeless subjects with classical grace, and the result is work of both high gloss and deep resonance.

Sample Poems by Annabelle Moseley

“Annabelle Moseley’s The Clock of the Long Now is an astonishing first book:
well organized, metrically accomplished, and thematically tight. Moseley is at home with a wide range of subject matter—from personal story to Biblical account—and her topics are of equal interest. The book is a showcase of sonnet forms, including a tour de force series of mirror sonnets, and shows a depth of feeling that matches her technical skill. She is easily one of the best formal poets of her generation.”— Kim Bridgford

“I can’t think of a recent poetry collection that pursues a more ambitious project more successfully than Annabelle Moseley’s The Clock of the Long Now. Moseley unscrolls a diverse set of elements that could easily fly apart in the hands of a lesser writer and combines them into a beautifully integrated whole. It consists entirely of virtuosic sonnet sequences (some of whose members read equally well when the order of their lines is reversed!) The book’s unity reflects the life of Moseley’s materials in her own mind, heart, and imagination. If you’re looking for a reading experience of uncommon richness, depth, and feeling, you’ll find it in The Clock of the Long Now.”— Daniel Brown

“Annabelle Moseley's poems establish human connections based on difficult choices, loss, pain, self-awareness, and redemption achieved through both personal love and the discipline of art. This passionate, thought-provoking first collection consists entirely of sonnets, discrediting the notion that form is somehow hostile to sense and inhibits passion. Moseley not only knows how to read the human heart, but also, thanks to her mastery of craft, conveys what she finds there in a voice that doesn't sound like anybody else's.”
— Rhina P. Espaillat

“Moseley's formal and lexical rigor are a bracing delight, her silence and sound elemental as Fitzgerald's Rubaiyat. The mirror sonnets are a particular triumph. This is a terrific debut.”— Sarah Manguso

Annabelle Moseley became the first Walt Whitman Birthplace Association Writer-in- Residence, 2009-2010. She is founder and editor of String Poet, an online literary journal of poetry and the arts, and the Cultural Curator of the Fourth Friday Studio Series at the Long Island Violin Shop. She is founder of the national String Poet Prize. Annabelle Moseley is also an Adjunct Professor of Religious Studies at St. Joseph's College. She has published more than 200 poems internationally in such journals as The Texas Review, The Seventh Quarry (Wales), Marsh Hawk Review, and Mezzo Cammin, among others. Her first three chapbooks of poetry, published from 2005 to 2008 include: The Moon is a Lemon (Birnham Wood), Artifacts of Sound (Street Press), and Still Life (Street Press). Annabelle Moseley's fourth chapbook is First and Last Things, a shared collection with the Welsh poet J. C. Evans, published jointly in New York and Wales by Cross-Cultural Communications. Her most recent chapbook is A Field Guide to the Muses, published by Finishing Line Press in 2009. Moseley won first place in the 2008 Writer's Digest Poetry Contest and a 2008 Amy Award from Poets & Writers. In April 2011, her poem"'Breakable" was one of twelve featured poems on Oprah.com's O, The Oprah Magazine's Selection of Original Poetry, part of their celebration of Poetry Month.

ISBN: 978-1936370573, 96 pages, $18.00

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