The freedom of history

"The Freedom of History continues Jim Moore's focus on themes established in The New Body. Jim Moore says, "It is the rub of history - personal and public, against the feeling of freedom and uniqueness that we experience as individuals - that inspires me to write... I am interested in the times when they oppress. But I am also drawn to the times when history, for brief intense periods, seems to disappear altogether, and we inhabit a more meditative and solitary world which gives us a very different perspective on our lives and on that world.""--back cover.