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she demands Luzia use those gifts to improve the family's social position

With keen insight and mordant humor

”—Time Out New York

That she’s ready for an actual commitment

When she was forced to leave her last home

Lightning Is a Mother by Bethany Jarmul Ingram she demands Luzia use thoseIn 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