Miranda Schmidt's lyrical debut novel blurs the boundaries between poetry and prose, human and nonhuman, reality and magic. A tale of queer love, new motherhood, and ecological interconnectedness, Leafskin interrogates how we create, and what we become, in a time of environmental devastation.
The Cemetery Cure is a small book of spells, an underworld journey of the body brushing up against the life/death veil and finding new form there. Beginning as an attempt to find language for the rough magic of the medicalized experiences of breast cancer treatment, Miranda Schmidt's poems weave through encounters with heritage, folklore, sexuality, gender, and the more-than-human world.