“Moran’s is an egalitarian poetry which will attract readers who do not usually read poetry and this is as great achievement as any high modernist grail.”
–Matt Haw-Poetry Salzburg Review, Austria

“Fierce argument is not his motive for writing poetry, but more a wish to repair and preserve time—with all the risks and opportunities that implies. Moran looks at the moment straight-on and makes it worthy of our attention. We are taught that unity, symmetry and beauty are judgments for art; I would add clarity, intensity and sincerity. These are real words for real people.”
-Grace Cavalieri-The Washington Independent Review of Books

“Moran’s work is a refreshing change after the syntactical pyrotechnics which contemporary poetry sometimes offers. It is a relief to find work that seeks profundity in the everyday, without inversions, or obscurity.”
 -Francis Spurrier-Write Out Loud, London

“Moran writes about simple, seemingly insignificant, everyday occurrences and he marvels at them. This is certainly not to say he looks for meaning in these occurrences; he does not. Rather, he is satisfied with an unreasoned fascination.”
-Chloe Charalambous-The Dundee Review, Scotland

“A deceptive simplicity and the clarity of intentions in his phrases from the very first poem to the last. I’m reading it over and over again.”
-Sofiul Azam, Victoria University, Bangladesh

“Moran is like a miner who takes a patch of ordinary ground and unearths dozens of diamonds. Read the book, and enjoy the brilliance.”
-Barbara Coles/New Hampshire Magazine

“Moran doesn’t let me down; he has taken an unusual life path for a contemporary poet, which has led him to a fully realized personal voice in his work that immediately gives a clear sense of his specific human sensibility. Though this small volume is my first encounter with his poems, I feel that I know him.”
-Al Basile- Literary Matters/ The Journal of the ALSC&W

“Moran is a favorite of several prominent writers, including the late Samuel Menashe, a poet of the first rank and the first to be honored with the Poetry Foundation’s “Neglected Masters Award.” Yet despite this, and despite the fact he’s been accorded a number of honors–including a stint as the poet laureate of New York’s Suffolk County–Moran’s work, in my view, has never come close to receiving the attention it deserves. You lovers of words, do yourself a favor: Neglect him no longer. ”
-Peter Quinn, Novelist and Historian

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