Based on Actual Events

Taking its inspiration from Melville’s famous line “If man will strike, strike through the mask,” Based on Actual Events punches through the surface of visible things, grabbing wild at the drifting actual. Calling himself a “a realist in fabulist clothing,” Robert Moore gives us a book-length sequence of sleek, fiercely comic, colloquial poems whose aphoristic storytelling is pegged to a nostalgia for sublimity. His project is to find new frames of reference for our estrangement from the world. With each burst of invention and stylistic high-spiritedness (“So we reverse engineered the awesome and all we got / was this lousy poesy”), Based on Actual Events adds up to be Moore’s best book yet.

Inspirandu-se din faimoasa linie a lui Melville: „Daca omul va lovi, loveste prin masca”, pe baza evenimentelor efective, strapunge suprafata lucrurilor vizibile, apucandu-se salbatic de efectul in deriva. Numindu-se „un realist in imbracaminte fabulista”, Robert Moore ne ofera o secventa lunga de carte de poezii elegante, inversunate comice, colocviale, a caror povestire aforistica este legata de nostalgia sublimitatii.