All the Ways You Still Remind Me of the Moon

Setting aside its shop-worn suite of poetic hallmarks—inconstancy, passivity, femininity, duplicity, flux—this sequence of poems stakes out a new symbolic territory for the moon and offers up a new moon for poetry and for our times. Poem by poem, moon by moon, All the Ways You Still Remind Me of the Moon rediscovers what the moon has to tell us about our relationship to change and recurrence, the tug of illusion, the patterns in our actions, the transitory temper of our reflections, and all the many ways in which we wax and wane. The moon, it transpires, is not only there even when we’re not looking at it; it is everywhere we look.

Liane Strauss is a prize-winning poet, the author of Leaving Eden and Frankie, Alfredo, and Head of Poetry in Creative Writing at Birkbeck College, University of London. She was born in Queens, New York, and has lived all over the US and now in London—but always in sight of the moon.
Written by Liane Strauss