The Freedom of History

The Freedom of History is an exploration of histories, personal and public, from a writer whose “poems are an artful amalgam of humor and fierce attention” (New York Times).

Jim Moore says of this collection of poems: “It is the rub of history—personal and public, against the feeling of freedom and uniqueness that we experience as individuals—that inspires me to write… . I am interested in the times when personal and political history liberate, and the times when they oppress. But I am also drawn to the times when history, for brief intense periods, seems to disappear altogether, and we inhabit a more meditative and solitary world which gives us a very different perspective on our lives and on that world.”