The Midnight Work
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.
Coming in October 2025 from Flood Editions
Advanced praise for The Midnight Work
Though it also addresses dead poet friends, The Midnight Work is never morbid. In a time where many Though it also addresses dead poet friends, The Midnight Work is never morbid. In a time where many of us seem hypnotized by apocalyptic visions, Moxley celebrates everyday life, even in extraordinary circumstances. This is now unusual enough, I think, to be called brave.
Jennifer Moxley’s poems combine lyric and innovative looks at daily life while interrogating societal comfort.
Reviewing Clampdown for the Nation, poet Ange Mlinko noted, “Moxley’s ethical anxieties emanate from a central unease, unease at home, and ripple out to touch nation, earth and cosmos. But . . . Moxley does not sublimate her psychology and social perspective.”
