how does the moon see?
I should tell you about a new book, The Moon Sees the One , by Candice Ward. It's been produced and published by Randolph Healy's wonderful Wild Honey Press , based in Ireland. As with all Wild Honey books, it is made with care and love, hand stitched and beautiful to read. The book holds the ghosts of nursery rhymes and old songs alongside the ghost of theory. There's also the ghosts of various poets and singers, many of which are quoted or gestured towards. There are ekphrastic gestures as well. The book is full of delight as well as shadows, and there are lines that will make you laugh with their punning fervour. Candice, of course, knows how to use the line which, in this chapbook, is deft and dancing. And overall I felt, as I read it, a form of ecopoetics, of speaking beyond the self, a restless entanglement with both the intimate and larger things, as well as a full immersion in the language material. I'll quote this following poem, which I published in a much ear...