In this electrifying debut poetry collection—written with the ferocity of Rita Dove’s groundbreaking Thomas and Beulah—a critically acclaimed award-winning talent explores a wide range of emotions, from anxiety to ecstasy reflecting the moon's phases, from Waning Gibbous to Full.
Both intimate and intricately structured Tramaine Suubi’s remarkable work is inspired by the moon—its phases’ effects on water, the Earth, and our bodies. Phases relishes in the beauty of change, even that caused by heartbreak. Suubi’s refreshing, vulnerable verse begs to be underlined, memorized, and shared; each of her poems operate as love letters to the cyclical healing that occurs in nature, in our bodies, and in the bodies that have come before us.
Tramaine Suubi is a multilingual writer from Kampala, and a graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. They are the author of phases and stages, and their creative writing has appeared in over twenty literary anthologies, journals, magazines, and reviews. They work towards the total liberation of all oppressed people.View all by Tramaine Suubi
