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 (she/her) is a transgender poet from Portland, Ore. She is author of "It’s Just You and Me, Miss Moon." Her work includes appearances in or forthcoming from Pile Press, Boats Against the Current, The Viridian Door, Banyan Review, The Dawn Review, Culinary Origami, and elsewhere. You can find her on Instagram @emilymoonpoet and Facebook.
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