{"product_id":"abc-moonlight-paperback","title":"ABC Moonlight - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eBen Estes\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"The writing here is a generous fusion of poetry and dreaming, one in which the poet-dreamer is ever cognizant of the collective as he plumbs his mind to find love and death in the American navel.\" --Graham Foust\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWith mounting intensity extended across three sections of poems, Ben Estes' achingly personal second collection unfolds to reveal an uncertain past, present and future that is by turns mysterious and beautiful. \u003ci\u003eABC Moonlight\u003c\/i\u003e contains poems that are filled with reflective awareness and subconsciously constructed dreams; a sweeping landscape of queer Midwestern loss and desire; and pairs of \"folded poems\" that question love, hope and vulnerability in these harrowing times. Rather than prescribing answers, Estes offers the reader intimacy and open-handed, big-hearted consolation--\"Now to let something go \/ of myself, \/ without any need \/ to replace it.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBen Estes\u003c\/b\u003e lives in Kingston, New York. Before this book, he wrote a book of poems called \u003ci\u003eIllustrated Games of Patience\u003c\/i\u003e (The Song Cave, 2015). Estes worked as the editor of \u003ci\u003eA Dark Dreambox\u003c\/i\u003e of \u003ci\u003eAnother Kind: the poems of Alfred Starr Hamilton\u003c\/i\u003e (with Alan Felsenthal); \u003ci\u003eTogether \u0026amp; Alone\u003c\/i\u003e, the photographs of Karlheinz Weinberger; and the poetry anthology \u003ci\u003eOn The Mesa: An Anthology of Bolinas Writing\u003c\/i\u003e (The Song Cave, 2021). He has most recently shown his paintings at Situations Gallery and Paula Cooper Gallery, both in New York.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 108\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.4 x 7.5 x 5.5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e February 01, 2022\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48265312796893,"sku":"9781737277538","price":22.74,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0811\/9867\/8237\/files\/SIz_iiRSX39781737277538.webp?v=1785166117","url":"https:\/\/handfulofbooks.com\/products\/abc-moonlight-paperback","provider":"Handful of Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}