{"product_id":"hawkhv","title":"Hawk \u0026 Moon, by Han VanderHart","description":"\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003ePoetry, chapbook, 36 pages, from \u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #2b00ff;\"\u003e\u003ca style=\"color: #2b00ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/bottlecap.press\/collections\/bottlecap-features\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eBottlecap Features\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eHawk \u0026amp; Moon\u003c\/em\u003e is a collection of intimate attachment, orbiting the images of the hawk and the moon as it circles human desire, the phases of the moon, and the haiku form. Like the haiku poets, ordinary life and its images are essential to these poems: the “braids floating \/ down the road \/ in late summer,” the meal moths flying out of the pantry, the ripe blackberry and “the flower before it…the thorn after.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003eExamining ego and poetry-making, Iris Murdoch’s philosophy and the fantasy of the self, the poems in \u003cem\u003eHawk \u0026amp; Moon\u003c\/em\u003e embrace the human condition of being moon-touched, open themselves up to wrongness, to confession, to love songs for child, brother, and lover. Whether listening to a barking dog or watching the hawks fight in the loblolly pine trees above the house, the lyric of these poems is rooted deeply in the dramatic local and the observing heart.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003eHan VanderHart is a queer writer living in Durham, North Carolina, under the pines. Their second poetry collection, \u003cem\u003eLarks\u003c\/em\u003e (Ohio University Press, 2025), was selected by Chanda Feldman as winner of the 2024 Hollis Summers Poetry Prize. Han is also the author of \u003cem\u003eWhat Pecan Light\u003c\/em\u003e (Bull City Press, 2021) and has essays and poetry published in \u003cem\u003eKenyon Review\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eThe American Poetry Review\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eThe Rumpus\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eAGNI\u003c\/em\u003e, and elsewhere. Han hosts \u003cem\u003eOf Poetry Podcast\u003c\/em\u003e and, alongside Amorak Huey, co-edits the poetry press River River Books.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Han VanderHart","offers":[{"title":"Chapbook","offer_id":50284815581499,"sku":"HAWKHV","price":10.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Digital Download (PDF)","offer_id":50284815614267,"sku":"HAWKHVe","price":7.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0062\/4420\/4614\/files\/hawkfront.png?v=1747010461","url":"https:\/\/bottlecap.press\/products\/hawkhv","provider":"Bottlecap Press","version":"1.0","type":"link"}