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sam8834's review against another edition
4.0
Motherhood poetics is so difficult sometimes, or that's how I've always felt, anyway. There's so much material and I find it challenging at times to turn domesticity into poetry. In any case, Alicia Jo Rabins has written a collection around maternal themes that's fresh and real and science-y and grotesque, and I love it.
munjoy19's review against another edition
5.0
This is my second reading of Fruit Geode, which makes it one of maybe a dozen books I've ever revisited. I love everything about this exploration of the wild depths of motherhood; it's lush and raw and a deeply moving example of what Seamus Heany calls "digging" in poetry. It's so hard to write about motherhood - so utterly mundane and also profoundly shattering. Rabins' experiences feel close and familiar, but her voice is so distinctive and precise, it's almost like listening to a better self make sense of the things. This is one of the reasons I reach for poems, and I'm deeply grateful for these.
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