{"product_id":"moony-days-of-being-paperback","title":"Moony Days of Being - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePoems that inhabit a world of flammable metaphors and spiritual fog machines, delivering poems that are part elegy, part glitch, part lunar broadcast.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eMoony Days of Being\u003c\/i\u003e, 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHok'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, \u003ci\u003eMoony Days of Being\u003c\/i\u003e is as much a book of grief and exhaustion as it is a performance of loopy.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Black Ocean","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46865287643292,"sku":"9781965154137","price":22.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0712\/7616\/7324\/files\/9781965154137.jpg?v=1778898890","url":"https:\/\/bronzeandbrass.store\/products\/moony-days-of-being-paperback","provider":"Bronze \u0026 Brass","version":"1.0","type":"link"}