CV2, Contemporary Verse, Volume 29 Issue No. 4, Spring 2007, includes 'An Interview with Daniel David Moses' by Joanne Arnott and five of Daniel's poems, In a Dark Month, Report on Mummified Remains, Catalina's Letter, The Heart Jumps and There's Only South, A Shaman Song. The Canadian Journal of Poetry and Critical Writing. $7.00CDN.
"Writing is a negotiation with reality, not the creation of one. There's knowledge that exists in our cultures, in our languages that's the result of other earlier encounters with the real. We can benefit from it by knowing what words have become or are coming to mean about the world."
Quote from the on-line interview with Daniel David Moses.
Big Noise, a poem, in 'Telling Stories, Secret Lives', a catalogue for an exhibition, edited by Jan Allen and Steven Matijcio, The Agnes Etherington Art Centre, Kingston, Ont. 2006. IBSN 1-55339-088-1
Smoke Blues, Offhand Song and Shorts Lines (pages 72-74) and Early Pornography and A Song on the Wall (pages 139-140) published in Without Reservation, Indigenous Erotica collected and edited by Kateri Akiwenzi-Damm (Kegedonce Press/Huia Publishers 2003) ISBN 0-9731396-2-5
Sixteen Jesuses, poems (Exile Editions 2000) ISBN 1-55096-516-6 ‘This first collection in a decade of poems by highly praised First Nations writer Daniel David Moses is an exploration of loss and longing. Moses celebrates family, art, culture, and two-spirited identity in poems that are rich in sound and sense. The poems are lyrical, passionate, occasionally polemical, and often funny. The myth-making of a trickster.’
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Aubade About Dad |
Cowboy Pictures |
Delicate Bodies, poems (Nightwood Editions 1992) ISBN 0-88971-042-2‘This collection of poems was originally published in 1980 by blewointment press, the forerunner of Nightwood, owned and operated by bill bissett. Whether Moses is meditating at his grandmother’s grave or enjoying a feast of juniper rabbit and bannock, this writer is in touch with the power of language.’
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Song In The Light Of Dawn |
August |
The White Line, poems (Fifth House Publishers 1990) ISBN 0-920079-68-7 Out of PrintWhat the Critics say: “…precise, perceptive and powerful…poetry of spirit and integrity.” - Quarry
“Here speaks the trickster wisdom of a true poet.” - Canadian Literature
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Inukshut |
The Line |
Uncommon Wealth, An Anthology of Poetry in English (Oxford University Press 1997) published The Line, page 757
Passing Above the Black River, Grandmother of the Glacier, Hotel Centrale, Rotterdam and Your Parent’s Hands, pages 66-71, Border Lines: Contemporary Poems in English edited by Wainwright, Clarke, Grogan, Li, Ross and Wallace (Copp Clark Ltd. 1995) ISBN 0-7730-5342-5
First Person Plural Edited by Judith Fitzgerald A poetry anthology introducing three poets forging a new direction in Canadian writing. (Black Moss Press 1988) ISBN 0-88753-175-X
Report on Her Remains, Some Grand River Blues, The Corn and Party Favour, pages 301-305, Harper’s Anthology of 20th Century North American Poetry (Harper & Row 1987)
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Macintosh Moon |
A Small Essay On The Largness of Light |