Collaboration was a significant aspect of Nancy Holt’s artistic practice. During the 1970s, the artist Carl Andre was a frequent correspondent, and several of Holt’s concrete poems consist of texts composed through letters, postcards, and faxes sent to Andre. Their close personal and artistic relationship is also reflected in the 1972 concrete poem collage Chinese Dinner, in which Andre appears as one of four guests alongside Holt, Robert Smithson, and Angela Westwater Reaves.

Nancy Holt created Moon Book in 1972—shortly after the first Moon landing in 1969 and the additional five lunar landings between through the end of 1972—a period when the Moon loomed large in the collective imagination. The collaged fourteen page book brings together disparate relationships and perceptions of the Moon over a large span of time.