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Availability:In StockContributor:Nathan HoksPublish date:4/7/2026Pages:112
Language:EnglishPublisher:Black OceanISBN-13:9781965154137ISBN-10:1965154131UPC:9781965154137Book Category:Poetry, Social ScienceBook Subcategory:American, Subjects & Themes, Folklore & MythologyBook Topic:Animals & NatureSize:7.20 x 5.30 x 0.40 inchesWeight:0.3109Product ID:SCHS6TZ94M

Poems that inhabit a world of flammable metaphors and spiritual fog machines, delivering poems that are part elegy, part glitch, part lunar broadcast.

Moony Days of Being, Nathan Hoks' fourth collection of poetry, is a surreal and tender reckoning with absurdity, memory, and the unravelings of daily life. These odes, self-portraits, and dedicatory poems fuse humor with emotional urgency as they wrestle with parenthood, intimate loss, and ecological and political despair.

The book opens in a place of existential estrangement and gradually adopts an elegiac and relational tone, speaking to family, poets, and imagined interlocutors with uncertainty and longing. The title poem, a cento composed of lines from the book, weaves refrains from earlier pieces into a coda. Interspersed throughout the book are quatrains of found images captioned by lines from the poems, an intermedia form that presents a playful visual index of the book's motifs.

Hok's poems resist tidy epiphany. Instead, they zigzag and pulse with associative energy--a lyricism that questions its own coherence while inviting the reader into resonant, affective spaces. With homages to influences like Vallejo, Plath, and O'Hara, Moony Days of Being is as much a book of grief and exhaustion as it is a performance of loopy.

Language:EnglishPublisher:Black OceanISBN-13:9781965154137ISBN-10:1965154131UPC:9781965154137Book Category:Poetry, Social ScienceBook Subcategory:American, Subjects & Themes, Folklore & MythologyBook Topic:Animals & NatureSize:7.20 x 5.30 x 0.40 inchesWeight:0.3109Product ID:SCHS6TZ94M
Nathan Hoks is the author of The Narrow Circle, Reveilles, and Nests in Air, the latter also published by Black Ocean. He has also published translations of work by Vicente Huidobro, Henri Michaux, and Christian Dotremont. He teaches at the University of Chicago and the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
Publisher: Black Ocean

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