A review by munjoy19
Fruit Geode by Alicia Jo Rabins

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.