IT'S JUST YOU & ME, MR. MOON
Peter Hamer

​“In the first poem of this collection, Peter Hamer 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 his 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 Hamer’s poetry.”
—Judith Arcana


“Peter Hamer’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, mr. 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. | 2020
ISBN-13: 978-1-7338246-3-7 (paperback)
$16

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Peter Hamer lives in Estacada, Oregon. He sits on the Estacada Area Arts Commission, is the Music Coordinator for the Estacada Summer Celebration annual art and music festival, and serves on the board of the Performing Arts Group of Estacada. He is the founder of the Estacada Poetry Project. His work appeared in Take a Leap, Spank the Carp, and the 2020 Clackamas County Poets and Artists Calendar.

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