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ISBN: 9781625571595
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Categories Poetry

moon moon

Publication Date: May 2025

Description

A moon’s moon may or may not be the astronomically accurate descriptor of a moon that orbits another moon. Whether rooted in logic or merely a cosmically precise description of “space trash”, moon moon is a collection that observes worlds: above, below, and inside of. Rife with chaotic eco grief, undercut with dark humor and strangeness. (Whitney Houston as two oracles to the moon of the moon, humans as gods as humans again.) It takes us from the world to the moon, to the moon of the moon, and back again–sometimes scientifically, often experientially, and always obsessively. It is a collection for anyone who holds curiosity, exploration, and the existentialism of climate change simultaneously. It is for the truest astronauts among us.

Praise

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

About the Author

July Westhale

July Westhale is a novelist, translator, and the award-winning author of six books, including Via Negativa, which Publishers Weekly called 'stunning' in a starred review. Their most recent work can be found in McSweeney’s, The National Poetry Review, Prairie Schooner, CALYX, and The Huffington Post. Carolyn Forde represents them at Transatlantic.

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