Fruit Geode AUTH-202864 ISBN13: 9781523986460

ISBN13: 9781523986460

of death and grief-but it is also a story of adventure

saves her family and an entire village during the American Revolution

Cecil Younger is fresh out of rehab with a head wound

unseen world we can call the supernatural

Fruit Geode AUTH-202864 ISBN13: 9781523986460In Alicia Jo Rabins' second collection, Fruit Geode, the terrifying power of maternal love coexists with sorrow for the loss of one's younger self. In lyrical, unfinching poems, Rabins investigates the passages of pregnancy, birth, and early infancy through a constellation of ancient and modern experience: Sumerian storm demons, astronauts, herbal medicine, Neanderthal DNA, mysticism, climate change. In tracing the ritual mysteries of motherhood,