Forthcoming April 2025, Red Hen Press
night myths • • before the body illuminates the dichotomies contemporary women grapple with every day: identity and expectation, self-preservation and doubt, freedom and entrapment, wildness and cultivation.
“This collection promises to stay with its readers […] finding new ways to live out the embodied music her generation asks of feminist environmental poetics.”
—CR Grimmer, author of The Lyme Letters, winner of the Walt McDonald First Book Award
An ecofeminist interrogation of identity, vulnerability, and relationship that dismantles the boundaries between the body and the natural world to reclaim expressions of power and womanhood.
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“I’m struck by the sound, the rhythm, the musicality of [Abi’s] work. […] It’s like that sound is a part of that voice being reclaimed—for women.”
—EJ Koh, author of The Liberators, The Magical Language of Others, and A Lesser Love
Sources of Inspiration
Iteration Nets by Karla Kelsey • A noisy, formally inventive meditation on human connection
Spar by Karen Volkman • A suite of musical prose poems observing perilous encounters
Breathturn into Timestead by Paul Celan, tr. by Pierre Joris • A multi-volume of linguistically dense poems in translation
rimertown / an atlas by Laura Walker • A haunting exploration of a small town
Companion Grasses by Brian Teare • A tender collection on physical and internal landscapes