IT'S JUST YOU & ME, MISS MOON
EMILY MOON

​“In the first poem of this collection, Emily Moon shows us Weldon Kees at his typewriter, making art “for a future that looks/as empty and bleak/as the present”—thereby flashing Kees out of the mid-twentieth century into our time. Here are the haze of cigarette smoke, the taste of whiskey, jazz on the soundtrack, walk-ons by Pope Francis and Frida Kahlo, and locations chosen or invented by Hamer, the poet-director. Here is her version of Kees’ shadow/symbol . . . presented as an obsession. These poems about Kees offer mysteries, deeply appropriate for a man whose life story includes his sudden disappearance in 1955—a mystery still, serving here as a touchstone for Moon's poetry.”

—Judith Arcana


“Emily Moon’s debut explores a groundbreaking potential for mystery. Lines like, “Sounds of the harbor clanked around us. / Salt breeze carried a tang of diesel / and sewage. / A clock chimed some ways off. / He checked his watch. Cinderella hour” bring this poetical film noir to life. For the reader interested in both story and lyricism, it’s just you & me, miss moon is in a revelatory league of its own.”

—Hannah Beresford, Poetry Editor at No Tokens
86 pages | A5  5.83 x 8.27 in. | 2021
ISBN-13: 978-1-7338246-9-9​ (paperback, 2nd edition)
$15
Emily Moon is a transgender poet. She is co-chair of the Estacada Area Arts Commission, sits on the board of the Performing Arts Group of Estacada, and is the founder of the Estacada Poetry Project. Her work appears in or is forthcoming from Anti-Heroin Chic, Take a Leap, Spank the Carp, the 2020 Clackamas County Poets and Artists Calendar, Cæsura and A Poet’s Agora Confinement Poetry Collection (in earlier publications under the name Peter Hamer).
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