{"product_id":"moony-days-of-being-9781965154137","title":"Moony Days of Being","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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Nathan Hoks\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Black Ocean\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/07\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 112\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.31lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.20h x 5.30w x 0.40d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781965154137","brand":"Black Ocean","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45463139713161,"sku":"9781965154137","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0636\/9240\/6921\/files\/img_4d4dc733-4046-45c6-ada9-56bc9ac52b94.jpg?v=1774997848","url":"https:\/\/sonsanddaughtersbooks.com\/products\/moony-days-of-being-9781965154137","provider":"Sons and Daughters Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}