By Trey Moody. Conduit Books, 2023.

AUTOBLIVION traces the difficulties of raising a young child in the Anthropocene. Haunted by the looming inevitability of environmental collapse, the poems invoke traditional storytelling genres to look ahead into the unknown. While also exploring various forms of loss, the collection ultimately serves as a love letter to a daughter’s childhood, an act of preservation for now and of preparation for an opaque future.

Trey Moody was born and raised in San Antonio, Texas. The author of Autoblivion (Conduit Books, 2023), winner of the Minds on Fire Open Book Prize, and Thought That Nature (Sarabande Books, 2014), winner of the Kathryn A. Morton Prize in Poetry, he has received the Poetry Society of America Robert H. Winner Memorial Award and his poems have appeared in The Atlantic, The Believer, and New England Review. A graduate of Texas State University and the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, he is an Associate Professor of English at Creighton University and lives with his daughter in Omaha, Nebraska.

Praise for The Box

This book—and Moody’s work at large—is steeped in a reverent compassion that becomes the catalyst of a salvaged awe for the world. The ethos here is a quiet yet expansive celebration, not just of life but the fractures within it, too. Like the finest poems, these lyrics estrange the mundane, rendering it into such singular and clear prisms, the familiar is both newly found and, in Moody’s deft hands, inimitable.” 

—Ocean Vuong