The Earth Moves at Midnight

“These poems, plungings into language for transformation, document internal and external movement and danger.” — Pat Mora, from the Foreword

Franciscan friar Murray Bodo’s collection opens with his mother’s illness and carries the reader from the juniper country of his New Mexico boyhood to the inner city of Cincinnati where he has ministered, and across the Atlantic his Italian grandparents once crossed.

Dedicated to the memory of his friend the poet Denise Levertov, with a foreword by Pat Mora and an afterword by the author.