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Neli Moody’s ambitious first collection is an impressive debut, with a
range of times and topics well orchestrated and integrated. Her
sinuous poems bring us closer to the elements they encircle and
embrace: grass, flint, clay, the bestial and beautiful, the mythic and
real—mountains, skies, stars, and plains. Prodigious and gorgeously
embodied, the world After Altamira creates is as inviting as it is
challenging, as sobering as it is exciting. These poems leave one
with a sense of renewed wonder at the boundlessness of the world.
This is a work you will want to reread, for pleasure as much as for its
confrontation with the origins and agony of our humanity.
---Paul Douglass, author of Lady Caroline Lamb: A Biography

Through her rich language, her roiling, pulsing rhythms and vivid
particulars, Neli Moody reveals the great heart of the beast that is
human, her own heart, and the matrix of nature from which they spring.
With one bold gesture she marks her lineage and takes her place in the
ongoing creation. She marvels and broods. I hope to marvel and
brood a long time with her.
—Len Anderson, author of Affection for the Unknowable

After Altamira is a smart and richly allusive collection, that
explores the link between the social roles of the artist and
the shaman. The poems are carved out of a shimmering
crystalline language and structured to metaphorically
chart the growth of the poet’s mind.
---Alan Soldofsky, author of Kenora Station and Staying
Home

Available NOW at Xlibris , Spartan Bookstore,
Bookshop Santa Cruz, Bay Books in Monterey, The
Works in Pacific Grove, Barnes and Noble,
Amazon, and Borders. To order a signed copy,
email me from the "Contact me" page. $10 softcover
or $20 hard cover.

My Essay, "A Syntax of Stones: Pre-Text, Edifice, and the
Sacred Space in Richard Burns’ 'Avebury'" will be published by
Salt Publications in the UK as part of its Companion text to
Richard's work in 2010.