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LOCATION:Head House Books\n619 South Second Street\n\nPhiladelphia\, PA 191
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URL:http://culturemob.com/events/6058997-an-evening-of-poetry-with-david-mo
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DESCRIPTION:David Moolten will be reading from his new book\,  Primitive Mo
 od at Head House Books in Philadelphia. 
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\nNov. 5th (Thursday) 7:30 PM
\
 nHeadhouse Books
\n619 S 2nd St
\nPhiladelphia\, PA 19147
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\nBookstore ph
 one: 215-923-9525
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\n"About Primitive Mood\, winner of the 2009 T.S. Elio
 t Prize\, Truman State University Press:
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\n"The poems on the page are po
 werful and substantial\, extremely elegant...The poet's view is exact\, cas
 ting hope on so much immediate darkness of the world...There is a strong pr
 eoccupation here on behalf of the damaged\, the displaced\, the hurt . . . 
 and it works on the reader's psyche\, rendering many of these poems quite m
 emorable. Hauntingly beautiful\, I would be brave enough to call this colle
 ction. Just the right potent mixture of reality and modern day fable . . . 
 quite enchanting\, mesmeric . . . I am thrilled that such poetry exists and
  it is being written by such capable hands."
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\n—Virgil Suárez\, Judge
 \, T.S. Eliot Prize\, Truman State University Press\, 2009
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\nTaking t
 he dark landscape of our human history as background\, David Moolten in his
  powerful and finely wrought collection\, explores the primitive urges that
  set us against each other\, and the cultural heritage—fairy tales\, oral
  histories\, legends\, narratives—that seems a testament to the cruelties
  we are capable of. If our “primitive mood” in life is grief\, it comes
  from our all too ruthless acquaintance with wreckage and violence\, someti
 mes through large apocalypses\, other times through personal devastations. 
 And any salvation for us lies in our notions of tolerance and restraint\, a
 nd perhaps in our abiding belief in an indefinable spirit that “bears us 
 / Up and onwards in spite of ourselves.” These are unflinching\, brooding
  poems of great scope and understanding.
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\n—Gregory Djanikian\, author
  of So I Will Till the Ground"
SUMMARY:An Evening Of Poetry With David Moolten
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