Long Rain
by Lenard D. Moore

Lenard D. Moore’s Long Rain is a book of exquisite tanka poems, similar to haiku, and short prose haibun, organized around the elements: Earth, Wind, Fire, Water. Yes, these poems capture a series of detailed moments, primarily set in the American South, but they also employ an energetic fragmentary language to express the flow of experience in a way that gives the book a surprising sense of movement.