“Garlic Moon is a loving devotional to the wonders of the natural world, the timeless wisdom of the ancestors and the eternal seasons of the Jewish calendar. Closely observed, deeply spiritual, and beautifully rendered, Hannah Yerington's poetry invites us to rediscover the sacred within the quotidian by remembering the majesty of a world we share with the flora, the fauna and each other.” —Deatra Cohen, co-author of Ashkenazi Herbalism: Rediscovering the Herbal Traditions of Eastern European Jews

“To read Garlic Moon is to be transported into a sacred realm replete with directories of angels, teenage girl ancestors, and recipes for an embodied life. Deftly weaving together plant medicine and Jewish angelology, embodiment and magic, Yerington’s poems are a gift to the reader, a blessing.” —Alicia Jo Rabins, author of When We’re Born We Forget Everything

“Hannah Yerington has written a gorgeous earth-based liturgy, a treasure hunt through the sensual delights of the natural world and the ethereal wanderings of angels. These poems hold words as elegant and intricate as the traces of seafoam left on the beach when the waves go out. Many phrases here will evoke memories in the body and leave traces in the heart. Yerington lets her Jewish language blend with the landscape so that roots make Torah of the dirt, an ark may be made of white flowers, and God may be found in a flock of moths—and all that exists, from carrot soup to dahlias, has a guiding spirit. One may also find women’s magic woven through in allusions to the incantations of Sephardic healers and the hut of Baba Yaga. In Yerington’s poems, everything is alive, even honey and salt, and the reader cannot help but come alive in response.” —Rabbi Jill Hammer, PhD, author of Undertorah: An Earth-Based Kabbalah of Dreams