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Books by Thorpe Moeckel
  | | Down by the Eno, Down by the Haw A Wonder Almanac by Thorpe Moeckel Paperback, 136 Pages, Published 2019 by Mercer University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-88146-721-5, ISBN: 0-88146-721-9 "On foot and in a leaky canoe, award-winning poet and naturalist Thorpe Moeckel meanders for a year through the fragmented forests of the Eno and Haw watersheds. He seeks the alive interiors of a world covered over in asphalt, seeks to shed its hard exterior and "wonder the woods." In doing so he makes a record both physical and numinous. His writing--lyrical and leapy with cellular, porous perceptiveness--invites readers to journey with ..." |
 | | Watershed Days(1st Edition) Adventures (a Little Thorny & Familiar) in the Home Range by Thorpe Moeckel Paperback, 256 Pages, Published 2015 by Mercer University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-88146-531-0, ISBN: 0-88146-531-3 "In Watershed Days, the reader embarks on a wide array of adventures shared in seasonal order over a period of two years, 2005-2007, yet spanning in memory back to the author's youth. Infused with a blend of ruggedness and sensitivity, the writing is ripe, wry, and roving, ever attuned to the natural world. When the focus is not on the immediate homestead activities of making apple butter, telling stories to his child at bedtime, coming ..." |
 | | Arcadia Road A Trilogy by Thorpe Moeckel Paperback, 208 Pages, Published 2015 by Etruscan Press ISBN-13: 978-0-9897532-5-8, ISBN: 0-9897532-5-5 "Thorpe Moeckel's trilogy of long poems are as rich, lush, and organic as the soil of his Virginia Blue Ridge homestead. In a mode both contemporary and as old as Hesiod, Moeckel sustains a cosmic and earthbound incursion into essential techniques and textures of life." |
 | | Venison(1st Edition) by Thorpe Moeckel Paperback, 72 Pages, Published 2010 by Etruscan Press ISBN-13: 978-0-9819687-1-1, ISBN: 0-9819687-1-6 "-Part orison, part ecstatic vision, part post-Lapsarian psalm, Venison turns the act of dressing/blessing a buck into rumination on 'the red path' of laboring, bloodshed, making, and the search for meaning that marks the human fall from paradise into time.--- Lisa Russ SpaarFood doesn't get any more local, cosmic, primitive, tasty, or disturbing than in this book-length, lyrical-meditative poem. At stake are no less than the origins and ..." |
 | | Making a Map of the River(Updated) by Thorpe Moeckel Paperback, 124 Pages, Published 2008 by Iris Press ISBN-13: 978-1-60454-201-1, ISBN: 1-60454-201-2 "In Making a Map of the River, award-winning poet Thorpe Moeckel focuses his rueful, tender attention on the spectrum of being-family, work, play, nature, home--sometimes all at once. The river in question is not just the Chattooga or its colorful, conflicted, rain chasing paddlers and guides. The river is consciousness itself, and Moeckel navigates the rapids and pools of memory and presence and language, layering moments of recognition ..." |
 | | True as True Can Be by Thorpe Moeckel Paperback, 240 Pages, Published 2020 by Green Writers Press ISBN-13: 978-1-950584-04-8, ISBN: 1-950584-04-6 "Lucinda Mae lives with her family and their homestead animals in Painter Creek Hollow, a secluded nook of the Blue Ridge Escarpment in upstate South Carolina that people call the Gorges. . . . True as True Can Be is a novel that explores persistence, curiosity, wonder, fortitude, friendship, secrets, morality, and intimacy with place. It is largely inspired by the novels of Jean Craighead George. The story also explores the lifeways of ..." |
 | | Odd Botany by Thorpe Moeckel Paperback, 64 Pages, Published 2002 by Silverfish Review Press ISBN-13: 978-1-878851-17-8, ISBN: 1-878851-17-9 "Poetry. "Thorpe Moeckel takes in the gorgeous, complex natural world that surrounds us, and which we too often ignore. He adds our goofy and often-painful culture. And then he shows us that language is capable of a more expressive response to these things than most of us ever thought possible." David Young"Thorpe Moeckel is litanist, pilgrim, sensualist, beseecher, explorer, and connoisseur of the heart's underbrush and waterways. ODD B ..." |
 | | Best Creative Nonfiction of the South, Volume I Virginia by Casey Clabough, Thorpe Moeckel, Texas Review Press Paperback, 228 Pages, Published 2016 by Texas Review Press ISBN-13: 978-1-68003-075-4, ISBN: 1-68003-075-2 "Best Creative Nonfiction of the South, of which this Virginia collection is the first volume, serves as a valuable resource for scholars, students, writers, and general readers interested in creative nonfiction both from specific areas of the South and across the region as a whole. The writers included in each volume come from diverse backgrounds, generations, and artistic traditions. Most, if not all, volumes in the series indirectly r ..." |
 | | Making a Map of the River(1st Edition) by Thorpe Moeckel Hardcover, 120 Pages, Published 2008 by Iris Press ISBN-13: 978-1-60454-200-4, ISBN: 1-60454-200-4 "In Making a Map of the River, award-winning poet Thorpe Moeckel focuses his rueful, tender attention on the spectrum of being--family, work, play, nature, home--sometimes all at once. The river in question is not just the Chattooga or its colorful, conflicted, rain chasing paddlers and guides. The river is consciousness itself, and Moeckel navigates the rapids and pools of memory and presence and language, layering moments of recognitio ..." |
 | | Meltlines(1st Edition) Poems by Thorpe Moeckel Paperback, 28 Pages, Published 2001 by Van Doren Company ISBN-13: 978-0-9679179-4-8, ISBN: 0-9679179-4-8 "Meltlines presents poems that play with the glacial formations ("Lord, the erosion is everywhere"), grizzlies ("the first/ is a speck & how slow"), mountains ("molared and calcitic"), skies ("chandelier of the northern night/ come, swarm"), and trout streams ("Art's elk hair/ sinks. Clouds bury the peaks. You kneel") of the Alsek River region of northwest Canada and southeast Alaska. Thorpe Moeckel, winner of the 2001 Gerald Cable First ..." |
 | | Best Creative Nonfiction of the South, Volume I Virginia by Casey Clabough, Thorpe Moeckel 228 Pages, Published 2016 by Texas A&M University Press ISBN-13: 978-1-68003-076-1, ISBN: 1-68003-076-0 "Adrian. Blevins. LateBreaking. Yew. Berry. News. from. the. Madman's. Love. Shack. The catalogue of infractions I have committed against this world would flood a small library, for what it's worth. I pilfered a pack of gum before I could talk and pretended to know how to write in cursive at the age of five. When I showed my cousin the hieroglyphics I'd scratched all over her Scooby Doo drawing pad, I furthermore felt something like ..." |
 | | According to Sand Poems by Moeckel, Thorpe Paperback, 63 Pages, Published 2022 by Mercer Univ Pr ISBN-13: 978-0-88146-857-1, ISBN: 0-88146-857-6 |
 | | The Southern Poetry Anthology, Volume IX(1st Edition) Virginia Volume 9 (Paperback) by William Wright, J. Bruce Fuller, Amy Wright, Jesse Graves, Darnell Arnoult Paperback, 360 Pages, Published 2022 by Texas Review Press ISBN-13: 978-1-68003-195-9, ISBN: 1-68003-195-3 |