Fruit Geode
Description
In 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, Fruit Geode examines what it means to be transformed, to leave behind our certainties and walk into the unknown. "I regard my former life / With a distant a ection, / As an astronaut / Looks through a porthole / At the small green planet / Where she used to live," writes Rabins. is is a book about what it means to live in a human body, how love changes us, and what we pass on from one generation to the next.
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About the Author
Jo Rabins is an award-winning performer, musician, poet, and Jewish
scholar whose recent film, A Kaddish for Bernie Madoff, is being exhibited
at film festivals throughout the US, most recently at the New York Jewish Film
Festival. Her writing appears in Kveller, Ecotone Magazine, Tablet
Magazine, and American Poetry Review, among others.
She is a 2020 Literary Arts Fellow in Poetry and has
fellowships from RACC, Bread Loaf Writers Conference, and Lower Manhattan
Cultural Council, and the Six Points Fellowship for Emerging Jewish Artists. Rabins graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Barnard College (Creative Writing), holds an MFA in poetry from Warren Wilson and an MA in Jewish Women's and Gender Studies from the Jewish Theological Seminary.Winner of the 2015 American Poetry Review/Honickman Book Prize, and finalist
for the National Jewish Book Award, she is also the author of Divinity
School and Fruit Geode, and creator of Girls in
Trouble, an indie rock song cycle abut biblical women. She lives in Portland, Oregon.
Reviews
"How does a body do what it does: make love, mistakes, create life, exist after life; how does a body evolve, celebrate, regret, reconsider its big and small moments: these are the passionate concerns of Alicia Rabins' Fruit Geode, a book that I could not stop reading once I started, a book that drew me in with intimacy and force and then grabbed my heart hard, which is to say, if you have a body, this book is a must read."
--Lynn Melnick
