Poetry Books
Everybody's Jonesin' for Something
University of Nebraska Press 2020
BackWaters Prize Hononrable Mention
Turning an unflinching spotlight on the American Dream, Indigo Moor plunges headfirst into national—and personal—laments and desires. From Emmett Till to the fall of the Twin Towers and through the wildfires of Paradise, California, Moor weaves a thread through the hopes, sacrifices, and Sisyphean yearnings that make this country the beautiful trap that it is. Everybody’s Jonesin’ for Something takes an imagistic leap through the darker side of our search for life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, perusing what we lose, what we leave behind, and what strange beauty we uncover.
In the Room of Thirsts and Hungers:
The Mirrored Tragesies of Paul Robeson & Othello 2017
Poet Laureate of Sacramento (and playwright) Indigo Moor's latest collection of poetry, In the Room of Thirsts & Hungers, weaves together the lives of entertainer Paul Robeson and Shakespeare's Othello to meditate on themes of persecution, treachery, and race. "Robeson: a star of the first half of the 20th century whose communist affiliation deemed him an un-American traitor. Othello: the African Moor of self-hatred, attempting desperately to be a part of the 'dominant culture'" Brandon Yu writes at SF Gate.
Through the Stonecutter's Window
The inaugural winner of the Cave Canem Northwestern University Press Poetry Prize, Indigo Moor’s Through the Stonecutter’s Window is a sustained and impressive dialogue with the visual arts, history, the natural world, and the poet’s dreams and nightmares. The verse dances polyrhythmically across and down each page. Always in motion, Moor’s lines are choreographed to make sense of all that is most elusive in meaning: music, violence, love, anger, and desire..
Ta--Root (2007)
In his impressive debut, Tap-Root, Indigo Moor is both dazzlingly cosmopolitan and down home in the same breath–simultaneously drenched in opera’s ornate.
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