Nathaniel G. Moore

Who is Nathaniel G. Moore?

Nathaniel G. Moore is a Canadian author, minor poet, and journalist.

In spring 2007, Moore released Let’s Pretend We Never Met with Toronto’s Pedlar Press. The book’s central theme was the interactions between the dead Latin poet Catullus and the author himself. Jacqueline Turner of The Georgia Straight wrote, “Moore metaphrastically transforms so many literary genres into poetry and works so thoroughly through the most everyday of concepts that the breadth of the work is breathtaking." In an Arc Poetry Journal review, critic Harold Rhenisch wrote, “It’s all brilliant and witty and dense and difficult, and like that other academic language poet, the cover girl of American poetry, Jorie Graham, it’s rushed. Intellectually, this poetry is brilliantly conceived.” Rhenisch concludes, “To read Let’s Pretend We Never Met is like looking at one of Pollack’s pieces with a magnifying glass. The intent may be a sense of the renewal of history and its fresh embodiment in the present, but the result is a clear statement about the impossibility of the task. What is left after the book has asplashed its paint around is the noise – visual, acoustic, and personal of the city. The portrait of the human body here is one of so inured to life in a dehumanizing architecture that it has become not Eliot’s pattern of nerves cast on a creen but the screen and projector itself.”