Moon Road

From poems of memory and family through its extraordinary voyaging sequences "Via Appia" and "To Ithaca," Ron Smith's Moon Road embodies the experiences and some of the more elusive lessons of marriage, fatherhood, teaching, sports, and travel. Domestic poems give way to poems of pilgrimage and witness, to poems of literary homage and metaphysical questioning. A mind nurtured in the mid-twentieth-century Deep South drifts north and west and finally abroad, and sometimes into visionary, mysterious pasts. With skeptical reverence, the poems hunger for and dramatize a search for immanence and transcendence. Many poems examine the fear of meaninglessness, the griefs of separation and alienation, and the limits as well as the powers of language.

Ron Smith is Writer-in-residence at St. Christopher's School in Richmond, Virginia, and teaches courses in poetry at the University of Richmond.

Washington County, Georgia, 1941	p. 1
Repairs	p. 2
Son	p. 4
Because She Loves Me	p. 6
Great Granddaddy	p. 8
Treehouse Poem	p. 9
Learner's Permit on Skyline Drive	p. 11
Greece	p. 13
Autumn Drab	p. 14
Sleeping on the North Rim	p. 16
Henry James and the Future of Photography	p. 17
Oxford	p. 19
Jet Lag	p. 19
Pat O'Brien Knocks Me Up	p. 19
Sickle	p. 20
The Soldiers Caught the Boys near the Top of the Hill	p. 21
Epic	p. 22
Approaching the Great Divide	p. 24
Lamartine at Jerusalem	p. 26
So Long since I Have Put My Hand on You with This Pleasure	p. 28
The Teachers Pass the Popcorn	p. 30
Objectivity	p. 31
The Southern Poet Reads Emerson	p. 32
Finally	p. 34
Via Appia	p. 35
"Queen of Highways," She Said -	p. 35
I Stop the Punto	p. 35
Getting the Hell Out of Dodge	p. 36
The Pontine Marshes	p. 36
Funneled into Terracina, Which We Find	p. 37
Finding Terracina	p. 38
High above Terracina	p. 39
Fooding	p. 40
Monte Circeo	p. 40
Fondi	p. 41
Postcards from Terracina	p. 41
Museo: Grotta di Tiberio, Villa di Tiberio	p. 42
Santa Maria Capua Vetere	p. 43
An Unexpected Aqueduct	p. 44
To Ithaca	p. 46
There Is No Ferry	p. 46
Hotel Bellavista, Otranto	p. 46
Duomo	p. 47
Rain and Amaro	p. 48
Brindisi	p. 48
Moon Road	p. 49
The Media II	p. 49
Ithaca	p. 50
At Phorkys	p. 51
The School of Homer	p. 52
Palace	p. 52
Aetos	p. 53
Marathias Plateau	p. 53
Under the Greek Stars	p. 54
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Lunch	p. 55
Sami	p. 55
Media II: Back to Brindisi	p. 56
Holy Land	p. 58
In the Old City	p. 58
Yair Shows Us the Holy Land	p. 59
When I Was Eight	p. 61
Notes and Dedications	p. 62
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