Sign-In
Cart
The Midnight Work
Paperback
Series: Flood Editions
Publisher Price: $19.95
Publisher: Flood Editions
Published: Oct 20 2025
Pages: 120
Weight: 0.55
Height: 0.30 Width: 6.60 Depth: 9.20
Language: English
Jennifer Moxley's The Midnight Work is a meditation on the fragility of memory and love in the increasingly mediated post-Covid world of polarized politics and climate change. Oscillating between the intimate and the expansive, Moxley addresses old friends, living and dead, in a series of epistles among more condensed lyric poems. Lacking the exhortation to contentment found in Horace, these poems nevertheless bend toward an Epicurean temperance and resilience amid folly, disappointment, and inevitable loss.
Sample Poem:
The Sonoma sunlight,
plumper of jammy grapes
clutching dusty hillocks,
sparer of area barons'
nestled residences, is a
blood-orange ball behind
a curtain of brown ash.
Even the algae in my brother's
swimming pool looks eerily
crystal in the smoke-filtered light.
Also in
General Poetry
Dante's Vita Nuova, New Edition: A Translation and an Essay
Pitavy, Francois
Alighieri, Dante
Paperback
Sounding the Seasons Enlarged Edition: One Hundred and Ten Sonnets for the Christian Year
Guite, Malcolm
Paperback
Lao Tzu: Tao Te Ching: A Book about the Way and the Power of the Way
Le Guin, Ursula K.
Lao Tzu
Paperback
They Bloom Because of You: Poems on the Infinite Love, Growth, and Magic of Motherhood
Urlichs, Jessica
Paperback
This Is the Main Event: Discovering the Life You Long for in the Life You Have
Smith, Joshua Luke
Hardcover