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In the shadows of the swamp, fairy tales don’t end with happily ever after. They drip with moss and blood, sung by cicadas and haunted by the women who came before.
Moss Mother is a spellbinding poetry collection that reimagines beloved fairy tales through the lens of Black American Southern Gothic tradition. Here, glass coffins sink in bayous, red hoods wander company towns, and witches speak in the tongues of fireflies. Each poem carries the weight of ancestral memory and the shimmer of myth, weaving together beauty and horror, grief and resurrection.
Both incantatory and elegiac, this collection asks: what happens when the stories we inherit are laced with both danger and salvation? How do we claim survival in a world that calls our magic monstrous?
For readers of Toni Morrison, Natasha Trethewey, and Lucille Clifton, for lovers of folklore, hauntings, and Southern night air, Moss Mother is a book of poems that will rock you like a hymn.
THIS IS A PRE-ORDER. BOOKS SHIP OCTOBER 22, 2025
In the shadows of the swamp, fairy tales don’t end with happily ever after. They drip with moss and blood, sung by cicadas and haunted by the women who came before.
Moss Mother is a spellbinding poetry collection that reimagines beloved fairy tales through the lens of Black American Southern Gothic tradition. Here, glass coffins sink in bayous, red hoods wander company towns, and witches speak in the tongues of fireflies. Each poem carries the weight of ancestral memory and the shimmer of myth, weaving together beauty and horror, grief and resurrection.
Both incantatory and elegiac, this collection asks: what happens when the stories we inherit are laced with both danger and salvation? How do we claim survival in a world that calls our magic monstrous?
For readers of Toni Morrison, Natasha Trethewey, and Lucille Clifton, for lovers of folklore, hauntings, and Southern night air, Moss Mother is a book of poems that will rock you like a hymn.
THIS IS A PRE-ORDER. BOOKS SHIP OCTOBER 22, 2025