Singing the Forge, Poems by G.H. Mosson

Singing the Forge explores the singing of what’s shaped us and what we’ve shaped for ourselves.  Through poems at times personal, plus vignettes from men and women of the past two centuries in the book’s middle section, these poems offer mirrors of becomings.  Readers encounter diversity.  Across free verse, meter, and poems of organic form, you might just see yourself.

Sample Poems by G.H. Mosson

“Through a series of beautiful meditative lyrics, Mosson links childhood and adulthood, journey and reckoning, memory and wonder.  A humane and earnest poet, Mosson is as much attuned to ‘songless streets of Baltimore’ as to ‘trees’ unnamed relation to the world.’  He captures this attunement with carefully measured language and impressive precision.  Many poems are probing observations of places and people, rendered in verbal landscapes revealing his debt to visual artists.  Hans Hofman, Philip Guston, Henry Moore are three invoked in this volume. The poems in Singing the Forge create a philosophy of life centered around the idea of harmony with the universe - even if harmony’s always at the verge of disintegration. They should be paid attention to and cherished for this reason.”—Piotr Gwiazda, Professor of English, Univ. of Pittsburgh

“Mosson’s poems are magical, memorable and meticulous, speaking to the powerful pull of locales and weathers and loves, yet get pinned to the memories of a reader with lines like these, spoken by a physician in his old age: ‘The nursing home is out there like a shark/ that has swallowed so many of my patients one by one.’  Give a copy to someone you love but be sure to keep one for yourself.”—Clarinda Harris, Professor Emeritus, Towson University

G. H. Mosson is the author of five prior books and chapbooks of poetry, including Questions of Fire (Plain View Press), Season of Flowers and Dust (Goose River Press), and Family Snapshot as a Poem in Time (Finishing Line Press). Two of the chapbooks are collaborative, Heart X-rays & Simultaneous Revolutions (PM Press). His poetry has appeared in The Tampa Review, California Quarterly, The Hollins Critic, The Potomac Review, Smartish Pace, Lines & Stars, Free State Review, SurVision of Ireland, and across the U.S.

He periodically reviews poetry, with previous publications in Rattle, The Cincinnati Review, JMWW, Boxcar Poetry Review, The Baltimore Review, Broadkill River Review, Heavy Feather Review, and Loch Raven Review. In 2010, he edited the anthology, Poems Against War: Bending Toward Justice. To date his writing has received grants from The Puffin Foundation of New Jersey, The Baltimore Office of Promotion & The Arts, and the University of Baltimore, plus one nomination for Best of the Net, and four nominations for the Pushcart Prize.

Mosson is a writer, father, lawyer, and dreamer. As a lawyer, he practices in the fields of employee rights law, select civil and domestic matters, and disability benefits. He supports fair trade, not free trade, and environmental conservation. He has an MFA from New England College, MA from The Johns Hopkins Writing Seminars where he was a teaching fellow with a focus on poetic meter, and BA in English from Portland State University. Originally from NYC, he lives in Maryland. For more, seek www.ghmosson.com.

ISBN: 978-1625494801, 90 pages

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