moon moon

July Westhale’s work has an investigative and improvisational quality that makes moon moon an endless surprise. Reading this book is like opening a homunculus that never ends. These poems are funny and strange and compellingly probe at a question Westhale asks: “Does it matter to us more to be understood, or to inhabit?” To explore the tension between comprehension and ownership, connection and possession, especially as it relates to our mistreatment of the natural world, she shifts the frame of our experience to other spaces and realms, so that we might see ourselves anew.

-Bob Hicok, author of Hold and Water Look Away