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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.
“Garlic Moon is a loving devotional to the wonders of the natural world, the timeless wisdom of the ancestors and the eternal seasons of the Jewish calendar. Closely observed, deeply spiritual, and beautifully rendered, Hannah Yerington's poetry invites us to rediscover the sacred within the quotidian by remembering the majesty of a world we share with the flora, the fauna and each other.” —Deatra Cohen, co-author of Ashkenazi Herbalism: Rediscovering the Herbal Traditions of Eastern European Jews
“To read Garlic Moon is to be transported into a sacred realm replete with directories of angels, teenage girl ancestors, and recipes for an embodied life. Deftly weaving together plant medicine and Jewish angelology, embodiment and magic, Yerington’s poems are a gift to the reader, a blessing.” —Alicia Jo Rabins, author of When We’re Born We Forget Everything
Hannah Yerington is programs manager at The Jewish Museum and Archives of British Columbia, and former director and creator of the Bolinas Poetry Camp for Girls in California. She received an MFA in Poetry from Bowling Green State University and previously published a chapbook, Sheologies. She is a friend of all flowers and lives in Vancouver with her warrior-chef husband Kris, her priestess kitten, Tala, and imp puppy, Poe. This is her full-length debut. Find her on Instagram @hannahyerington or hannahyeringtonwriting.com.