The poems in Writing the Silences represent more than 60 years of Richard O. Moore´s work as a poet. Selected from seven full-length manuscripts written between 1946 and 2008, these poems reflect not only Moore´s place in literary history-he is the last of his generation of the legendary group of San Francisco Renaissance poets-but also his reemergence into today´s literary world after an important career as a filmmaker and producer in public radio and television. Writing the Silences reflects Moore´s commitment to freedom of form, his interest in language itself, and his dedication to issues of social justice and ecology.