Lightning Is a Mother Author|Art Berman A long-time resident of the

A long-time resident of the San Francisco Bay Area

He organized the exhibitions California Video

“85A is blessed with one of the most appealing and unique narrators I’ve come across in fiction in a while

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her writing explores transit and transience

Lightning Is a Mother Author|Art Berman A long-time resident of theIn this breathtaking, expansive poetry collection, Bethany Jarmul explores identity, spirituality, motherhood, and nature. Within these lyrically rich poems, Appalachia is a kind of Eden, a paradise spoiled by humanity. Eve, the first mother, becomes a starting point for the speaker's exploration of what it means to be a mother, an earth dweller, a self. This book opens in creation, unflinchingly faces the dangers and wonders of our world, and ends