STRICKEN is captivating, this collection takes us to the deepest places grief can touch our lives."Gail Gauldin Moore's STRICKEN is truly captivating. It's also perfectly timed for a society shaken by all manner of plagues. "Eternity," she writes, "is a spasm in a Petri dish." Everywhere throughout this collection, Moore's poetry is at once prescient and inquisitive, deftly embodying the beguilement of the day. At it's heart, however, it is a study of personal loss, a tribute to love's inevitable wound. "For me, the best thing now / is coping with the worst thing." There is potent medicine here. Moore is at the height of her art."—Brendan Constantine, author of Dementia, My DarlingPoetry.