Wild Like a Woman by Thalia Geiger

Thalia Geiger is a poet and fiction writer born and raised in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania where she lives and works as a publishing associate and poetry editor. Her poems have appeared in New York Quarterly, Allegory Ridge, Santa Ana River Review, and her fiction has appeared in Coffin Bell, and Grim & Gilded.

 

PRAISE:

 

Come revel in the femme splendor of this tantalizing collection with me ­– I can’t tell you how to work the witchcraft of being fully present in the natural world any better than these poems do. Thalia Geiger‘s wild like a woman is a complex blossoming and yet also fully bloomed. She embodies “The whole river, and everything that lives inside it.” She embraces the shapeshifting energy of the cicada, the microbiome, the invasive ivy.  “I hear it singing in the dark,” Geiger writes of the dark feminine spirit, and I believe her.
–Elizabeth Scanlon, author of Whosoever Whole, and Lonesome Gnosis

 

Thalia Geiger‘s new collection is a lesson in scale, simultaneously intimately human and humble while taking in all of the universe. Its exploration of womanhood in a post-roe world shrinks down to the size of a single lost birth control pill and gut biomes, only to explode out into a critique of poetry itself. It starts and ends exposed to the world; unsure but ready; fiercely proud of its container even as it explores its raw edges. Like Louise Glück, Ana Codjoe and other poets it proudly takes its inspiration from, Wild Like a Woman is a sharp, naturalistic and full exploration of modern femininity that anyone can find inspiration in.