cover of the chapbook "The Cemetery Cure" by Miranda Schmidt, with art by Verena Raban

The Cemetery Cure

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.

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drawing of a hand/glove with astrological pisces symbol on palm and berries filling wrist

“Cancer treatment is a winnowing through which something uncanny can bloom...in this edge space, the ghosts can rise out of you.”

— The Cemetery Cure

The cover image from The Cemetery Cure by Miranda Schmidt, art by Verena Raban
a hand drawn crescent moon
a hand drawn spiral in a diamond shape
a page from The Cemetery Cure by Miranda Schmidt
an image from The Cemetery Cure, art by Verena Raban, two faces made of vines with a circle of swords

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. With otherworldly illustrations by Verena Raban, poems wend over pages, seeking shape. The Cemetery Cure is an underworld journey of the body brushing up against the life/death veil and finding new form there.

from dancing girl press