About the Book In lyrical, unfinching poems, Rabins second collection investigates the passages of pregnancy, birth, and infancy through a constellation of ancient and modern experience: Sumerian storm demons, astronauts, herbal medicine & mysticism, climate change, examining what it means to be transformed. Book Synopsis In Alicia Jo Rabins second collection, Fruit Geode, the terrifying power of maternal love coexists with sorrow for the loss of ones 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. Review Quotes 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