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.

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.

With poetry and verse that is unrelentingly original, authentic, eloquent, memorable, and deftly crafted, Wild Like a Woman is an extraordinary read and an unreservedly recommended addition to personal reading lists, as well as community and college/university library Contemporary American Poetry collections.