Oak Knoll

Limited to 120 copies. A fine copy.

The fourth in the Loose Canons pamphlets, a series conceived to draw readers' attention to poets whose work, once well known, has falled into the shadows & become lost to sight. Designed by Crispin Elsted and hand-set by Lea Sánchez Milde in Van Dijck on vintage Holcombe paper.

From the printer's website: "Merrill Moore (1903-1957) is recognized, when he is remembered at all, as the man who wrote all those sonnets. But that is an insubstantial and jejune description of a poet of profound human insight and deft, crisp lyricism.

Moores entire published (and unpublished) poetic output comprises a staggering number of sonnets. It has been estimated that in his lifetime he composed over 50,000 of them, and while he often discarded rhyme - and even more often iambic metre - his sonnets retain the developmental structures of the form: the presentation of a subject, whether human, philosophical, or natural, in the opening section, followed by a summation, development of narrative, resolution of argument, or contemplation of meaning or effect in the concluding passage. Many of his sonnets derive their impact from his insights as a doctor into individuals."