Garlic Moon - by Hannah Yerington (Paperback)

Book Synopsis

Garlic Moon is a book of portals, prayer, and magic.

Here, we meet with the kitchen healer and the lichen rabbi. We find ourselves in a greenhouse in a snowstorm, in a sukkah filled with fairies, on a lost coast. We dip into magic realism, surrealism, and the bathtub. We are invited into a place both familiar and fantastical: the plant world of our ancestors, the home of prophet babes, barnacle geese, and everyday angels--one of embodied ritual and sacred whimsy.

Garlic Moon follows the Jewish lunisolar calendar, moving through Fall to Summer, punctuated by lists of peculiar but charming angels, and embodied writing and artistic prompts called "writual" that read as both poetry and prayer. Garlic Moon draws heavily on feminist midrash, folktale, folk magic, and plant medicine, resulting in a poetry book that is both narrative and mystical.

About the Author

Hannah Yerington is a poet, Jewish magic arts educator, and the director of The Bolinas Poetry Camp for Girls. Her work focuses on Jewish folklore, surreal world-building, sacred whimsy, and creative ritual. She received an MFA in Poetry from Bowling Green State University. She's been published previously in Lilith, Room Magazine, Hey Alma, and Cascadia Daily News. She is a friend of all flowers, and lives in Vancouver, British Columbia with her warrior partner, Kris, her priestess kitten, Tala, and her imp puppy, Poe. Find her on Instagram @hannahyerington or at hannahyeringtonwriting.com.