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Old Ridges

By: Diane Marquart Moore

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Poetry and short stories: Further back, I could see ancient ridges, oak groves, wild grapevines overarching marshmallow, yucca, and oleander, some distance from the Intracoastal Canal where I once rode in a boat bound for Cheniere au Tigre,

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0984315004

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Goat Man Murder

By: Diane Marquart Moore

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Goat Man Murder

By: Diane Marquart Moore

Goat Man Murder is based on the unsolved murder of Miss Josephine Meredith committed in the 1930's in Natchez, Mississippi. Prior to being murdered she shoots a goats whose owners live in a decaying antebellum mansion, Glendarrow, next to her perfectly groomed Meredith Manor. The eccentric "goat couple," Jonathan Darrow and Miss Livy, love their goats and become prime suspects in her murder. But so is another eccentric, Penelope, whose jealousy over her brother Donald Major's twenty-year affair with Miss Meredith leads her to contemplate suicide. Slowly going mad, she spends her days dressed in a white peignoir in the cupola of their home. However, the physical evidence for the murder points to an employee of Miss Meredith, "Old Tin," a black man.

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0984315039

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9780984315031

The Maine Event

By: Diane Marquart Moore

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The Maine Event

By: Diane Marquart Moore

Loring Air Force Base is in the remote, sparsely populated north woods of Aroostook County, Maine. During the 1950's, Jeanne Durand, a young Army wife living in a close-knit armed services neighborhood, turns amateur sleuth when her downstairs Canasta partner, Birdie Brun, is murdered. Jeanne suspects Birdie's abusive husband, Bill, who shot a hole through the floor of the Durand's living room upstairs. Jeanne finds no dearth of suspects. She sees Army MP Trey Fontenot lurking around her apartment. She discovers that Trey left voodoo conjuring agents in Birdie's apartment. Alan Greenbeck, a Mormon who lives with his family across the street, tries to convince Jeanne, a little too forcefully, that polygamy is a good thing. Perhaps he wants the beautiful Birdie for a wife. Jeanne identifies the murderer, but not before her life is endangered.

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0984315020

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9780984315024

Night Offices

By: Diane Marquart Moore

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Night Offices

By: Diane Marquart Moore

If you've ever suffered from insomnia or composed nocturnes of any kind during the night hours, Diane Marquart Moore's Night Offices, her nineteenth book of poetry, will "speak to your condition." Moore explores the uses and the cures for insomnia, famous characters who have suffered from this malady; e.g., W. C. Fields, Groucho Marx, and Thomas Edison. With characteristic wit and irony, she records the sleeplessness of various family members and friends, including her own propensity to recite the "night offices," writing that ..".in four vigils of the night you wake/with desolation for a pillow./Phantom crucifixions hover-/monsters that pull/your soul from sleep, /peer over the edge/of a blade on a ceiling fan..." She confesses that no matter where she closes her eyes "a lightship lowers its anchor in the room.

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0989864146

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Spring's Kiss

By: Diane Marquart Moore

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Spring's Kiss

By: Diane Marquart Moore

Spring's Kiss is a "sequel" to Between Plants and Humans. This book of poetry praises the qualities of wild and garden flowers that inhabit and create beauty in the world and is a nod to the words of Susan Wittig Albert's "One person's weed is another person's wildflower." The flowers photographed by botanist Victoria I. Sullivan were discovered growing in southern habitats. Medicinal, as well as aesthetic qualities of the plants, were included in poems of this volume.

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0996873791

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9780996873796

Corner of Birch Street

By: Diane Marquart Moore

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Corner of Birch Street

By: Diane Marquart Moore

The Corner of Birch Street, a collection of poems in a mini-memoir of a close-knit southern neighborhood during the 1940's, will inspire in many readers feelings of nostalgia for young love, marble games, touch football, paper dolls, five cent Hershey bars, and "Mom and Pop" grocery stores. The poems also reveal social issues that were brought into focus by laws forbidding segregated movie houses, bullying among children, and child molestation. Pithy and profound verse in both familiar and unexpected glimpses of American life during the mid-twentieth century.

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0996873708

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9780996873703

Street Sketches

Poetry

By: Diane Marquart Moore

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Street Sketches

Poetry

By: Diane Marquart Moore

Alleyway, cobblestone, asphalt or concrete, streets are shared by all types of people who engage in diverse interactions; they are places of commerce or are residential in nature where aggregates of cultures gather. In Street Sketches, Moore captures the atmosphere and people who traverse streets that she has lived on or visited... from the busy streets of Ahwaz, Iran where she lived and observed beggar street people spreading their household goods on an Oriental rug and using it for a residence... to the elegant boulevards of Paris, Munich, and New York City, places where contrasting life in an urban environment takes place. She also probes the "Thoroughfares of the Mind" ... "troubled roads winding among weeds/beside the ruffled waters of old lakes/and back alleys inside the brain. /Scandals and undisguised tragedies/mingling in closets of paranoia." The concluding poem, "All Roads Lead to Home," reflects on her homesickness for streets everywhere she has lived and visited, lamenting that she "would probably spend a lifetime sitting at a window overlooking the streets of all those places, sketching what I viewed with words that express languishing nostalgia..." Street Sketches is a map of named and no-named roads and avenues, sketched with a fresh perception that rings true and enchants in observations that will appeal to a universal audience.

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0996873740

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A Lonely Grandmother

By: Diane Marquart Moore

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A Lonely Grandmother

By: Diane Marquart Moore

No matter the period in human history, grandmothers have always been important, cherished women in the family constellation. In this volume of poetry, a maternal grandmother calls the poet's family "a tempest in a teapot," but is only showing concern for her grandchildren's dysfunctional upbringing. A stern but forgiving figure in the poet's early life, Grandmother Nell comes to realize that "the children gone/Absolutes will not keep her company." A poetic tribute to a grandparent, The Lonely Grandmother spans a family history from the poet's childhood to adulthood and ends with the meditative piece of closure: "She closed the heavy door behind me. When I reached the sidewalk, I looked up at the cupola on the roof of the old house. A phantom flew out of the window beneath it and disappeared in the sky.

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0986280151

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In a Convent Garden and Other Poems

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In a Convent Garden and Other Poems

By: Diane Marquart Moore

In a Convent Garden and Other Poems features poems about life within a Benedictine Convent and on the Cumberland Plateau, as well as cameos of people in the Tennessee hills and feelings engendered by visits to the homes of southern writers. A special section entitled "Yard Poems" encompasses poetic, often whimsical observations about flora and fauna of the Tennessee forests. Meditations about the spiritual life, music, art, and travel combine wonder and wisdom in a single volume that contains the songs of a profound poetic voice.

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0989864103

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Mystical Forest

By: Diane Marquart Moore

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Mystical Forest

By: Diane Marquart Moore

Mystical Forest is a volume of verse in which the title poem explores a painting rendered by an artist for his wife. Poems encompass everyday life and people in Louisiana and on the Cumberland Plateau, Tennessee and include revelations of the poet's inner vision and struggles with past and aging. Straightforward, accessible poetry, wry and profound, covering subjects of daughters, weather, wildlife, gardens, and domesticity.

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0984891595

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9780984891597

A Strand of Beads

By: Diane Marquart Moore

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A Strand of Beads

By: Diane Marquart Moore

Whether beads are used to mark repeated prayers, incantations, or devotions, over two-thirds of the world's population uses them in religious practices. In A Strand of Beads, the majority of the poems focus on prayers addressed to Mary-rosaries said in praise and entreaty and for metaphysical/psychological reasons. Other beads, such as the Persian strand the poet received in Iran, focus on protection from negative energy and provide relief from stress. The lead poem features a rosary obtained from Dachau and tells the story about the marriage ceremony of two young people who choose to spend their honeymoon in southern Germany and Poland. When the couple brings the Dachau strand back as a gift for the poet, she experiences revelations while using it and wishes the couple had kept the rosary and used it to preserve their marriage. Whether writing about glass beads, precious stones, or wooden beads, Moore is always cognizant of the word "bede," the old English word that means "prayer," and of the cogent spiritual energy within each strand of beads.

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0986280178

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Grandma's Good War

A Verse Retrospective of the Forties

By: Diane Marquart Moore

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Grandma's Good War

A Verse Retrospective of the Forties

By: Diane Marquart Moore

The poems in Grandma's "Good War" A Retrospective in Verse about the Forties, reminisce in rhyme about a time when the author was a young girl and when people felt that WWII was a "good war" because it would end all wars.

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0965097730

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9780965097734

A Slow Moving Stream

By: Diane Marquart Moore

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A Slow Moving Stream

By: Diane Marquart Moore

In A Slow Moving Stream, poet Diane Moore follows the languid Bayou Teche from its source at Port Barre to Morgan City, Louisiana where it empties into the mighty Atchafalaya River, making a journey that traces Cajun origins in a lovely and sometimes lonely landscape. During the journey she unveils the characters and events of early Acadian settlements from the time the Cajuns fled their native Pisiguit, Nova Scotia to present-day oil wealthy Acadiana. This volume includes poems about the Great Flood of 1927, a Civil War battle near Franklin, Louisiana, descriptions of swamp life, and explores spiritual ties that have bound the people who built homes and enterprises along "a slow-moving stream" in one of the United States' most colorful cultures.

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0996873724

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9780996873727

An Ordinary Day

By: Diane Marquart Moore

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An Ordinary Day

By: Diane Marquart Moore

An Ordinary Day is a collection of poems about what is near and ordinary that displays the poet's sympathy and fondness for simplicity. It includes poetry that illuminates the natural world where small things reflect radiance and beauty. "Everyday" photographs that complement many of the poems are rendered by botanist/naturalist Victoria I. Sullivan.

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1734680202

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Chant of Death

By: Diane Marquart Moore,Isabel Anders

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Chant of Death

By: Diane Marquart Moore,Isabel Anders

Monks become rock stars! Chant of Death is set in a fictional Benedictine Abbey in southern Louisiana, where Spanish moss veils the landscape, and a murderous soul has found a cloistered refuge. When murder breaks out, Father Malachi finds his powers stretched to the limit in an effort to protect the innocent and identify the killer.

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Book's by Diane Marquart Moore

Old Ridges

Old Ridges

Goat Man Murder

Goat Man Murder

The Maine Event

The Maine Event

Night Offices

Night Offices

Spring's Kiss

Spring's Kiss

Corner of Birch Street

Corner of Birch Street

Street Sketches

Street Sketches

A Lonely Grandmother

A Lonely Grandmother

In a Convent Garden and Other Poems

In a Convent Garden and Other Poems

Mystical Forest

Mystical Forest

A Strand of Beads

A Strand of Beads

Grandma's Good War

Grandma's Good War

A Slow Moving Stream

A Slow Moving Stream

An Ordinary Day

An Ordinary Day

Chant of Death

Chant of Death

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