Poetry. "Laura Moriarty's RONDEAUX is a beautiful and complex collection of writings. They seem to emerge out of one or many situations, but as if they were locations in a person's life. These situations were once narrative or are about to be so, but because of the erotic and pensive writing, the events, or the moments in which they occur, have stopped. But consideration and implication continue, a real recollection of writings. This wonderful book suggests that not all experience must disperse."—Lyn Hejinian

"In RONDEAUX Laura Moriarty expands the scope of her poetry. I'm especially impressed by her ability to write throughly contemporary disjunctive-conjunctive poems and obliquely echo tradiotnal personal lyrics and other verse forms, notably, the epononymous 'rondeaux,' whose endings recall their beginnings without repeating them, and the 'baroque' process."—Jackson Mac Low

Author City: ALBANY, CA USA

Laura Moriarty was born in St. Paul, Minnesota, and grew up in Cape Cod, Massachusetts, and in Northern California. She attended the University of California at Berkeley. She was the Director of the American Poetry Archives at the Poetry Center at San Francisco State University for many years. She has taught at Naropa University and Mills College and is now the Deputy Director of Small Press Distribution. Her books include A TONALIST (Nightboat Books, 2010), A SEMBLANCE: SELECTED AND NEW POEMS, 1975-2007 (Omnidawn, 2007), ULTRAVIOLETA (Atelos, 2006), SELF-DESTRUCTION (Post-Apollo Press, 2005), NUDE MEMOIR (Krupskaya, 2000), THE CASE (0 Books, 1998), SPICER'S CITY (Poetry New York, 1998), SYMMETRY (Avec Books, 1996), L'Archiviste (Zasterle 1991), LIKE ROADS (Kelsey St. Press, 1990), and RONDEAUX (Roof Books, 1990).