Indigo Moor
Winner of the 2009 Cave Canem Northwestern University Prize for a Second Book
“Sense-embedded, peeled to perceptive freshness, with a gift for the muscular
and concentrating phrase, Indigo Moor’s first book engages not only family
and personal history, but the broader culture’s as well. These are poems
weighted with the real world, consequential, revelatory, and moving.”
—Jane Hirshfield
"Indigo Moor writes poems that crackle with 'cryptic lightning.' These poems
open a sustained and impressive dialogue with the visual arts, history,
the natural world, and the poet's dreams and nightmares, while dancing
polyrhythmically across and down each page. An assured and engaged
aesthetic vision takes shape and sharpens here before our eyes."
—John Keene