Publisher's Synopsis
The village of Williamsburg in the hills of western Massachusetts was still an isolated settlement of farmers and trappers when the thirteen-year-old Manoah Bodman arrived there with his family in the 1770s. . . . This remove village was an unlikely place in which to find a poet and visionary like Manoah Bodman. . . . As dark as most of Bodman's work is, there are moments of delicacy and delight. . . . A Matter of Infinite Moment is taken from Bodman's 1817 book, An Oration on Death, and The Happiness of the Separate State, or The Pleasures of Paradise.
