Acid Rain Epithalamium

Advance Praise for Acid Rain Epithalamium Acid Rain Epithalamium is a rich, layered text that showcases a range of formal and thematic work. Within the poems are reversals, questionings, tentativeness as the speaker grieves losses-but there's a strength of voice underneath that hesitancy that is explosive, espouses commitment to an unmapped future, and is ready to be set free. -Khadijah Queen, author of Anodyne With this exquisite debut collection from Becca Downs, we join the poet as she navigates divorce, climate change, and the many parallels in these transformations, as in the title piece: "this isn't the rain we asked for but it is the rain we've made love to dropped to one knee bound ourselves for life this could be a celebration windborn praise songs crawling toward mountaintops" -Suzi Q. Smith, author of A Gospel of Bones