THIRTEEN SEPTEMBER MOONS: A LOVE STORY by James Lenfestey

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In Thirteen September Moons, James Lenfestey, generally a poet of robust, solar, high-spirited voice, surprises us with a new voice, nocturnal, literally lunar, perhaps the solar voice at low ebb.  This voice is “angelic” in the way of Wim Wenders’s contemporary angels who watch half-envious, half-horrified the brash glories of human life from a disincarnate distance.  This moon-angel voice is a cunning vehicle for mirroring back to us earthlings our abundance of terrestrial treasures and our reckless endangerment of them.  Profoundly environmental, these poems ask utterly necessary questions of us, such as “what terrible more / are you capable of?” and “what do you say / to the darker person next to you / forever a part of your life?”  This book is an unsettling gem.

–Thomas R. Smith, author of Windy Day at Kabekona and The Glory

 

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THIRTEEN SEPTEMBER MOONS: A LOVE STORY

by James Lenfestey

$13.99, paper

978-1-64662-103-3

2020

After a career in academia, marketing communications and  journalism on the editorial board of the StarTribune, where he won several Page One awards for excellence, since 2000 James P. Lenfestey has published a collection of personal essays, six collections of poems, edited two poetry anthologies and co-edited Robert Bly in This World, University of Minnesota Press.  His haibun memoir, Seeking the Cave: A Pilgrimage to Cold Mountain (Milkweed Editions), was a finalist for the 2014 Minnesota Book Award.  His sixth poetry collection, A Marriage Book: 50 Years of Poems from a Marriage (Milkweed Editions), was a finalist for two 2017 Midwest book awards.  For fifteen years he chaired the Literary Witnesses poetry program in Minneapolis and has led a summer poetry class on Mackinac Island, Michigan.  As a journalist he has covered climate science since 1988.  He lives in Minneapolis with his wife the political activist Susan Lenfestey.  They have four children and eight grandchildren.

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