Fruit Geode (book of Alicia’s poetry)

Alicia’s second poetry book, Fruit Geode, was a finalist for the Jewish book award and a New & Notable selection in the New York Times Book Review.

“Against the tide of received wisdoms about mothering and loving, one can only marvel at the personal cosmology Alicia Jo Rabins builds in these poems…Fruit Geode amounts to a kind of ritualistic reclaiming of the body and spirit as mother and artist in the presence of both her progeny and her ancestors who watch as she spirits herself into song again and again.” — Major Jackson

In Fruit Geode, poet Alicia Jo 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, Jewish mysticism, climate change. This 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.