Acid Rain Epithalamium - Paperback

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