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Tram Editions, 2025.
“With stunning precision and lush surprise, Natalie Giarratano describes the harrowing experience of birthing her child through an emergency C-section in the opening poems of Molecular Memory. “I am in this room/ when our clustering begins/ but cannot hear her cries/ over the
blood-thrumming./ I’m off taunting the cosmos, baby.” From this position both present to earthly concerns and in dialogue with the cosmic, Giarratano describes the broader challenges of mothering through late capitalism, ecological crisis, and the racism of the twenty-first century. “There is meaning in every minute/ of what is not wasted…” Giarratano writes. “Obliterate the names/ of saints with the true names of trees…” The result is required reading for all of us who might “mother”—biologically, spiritually, or intellectually, across sexes, genders, and species. Molecular Memory is document of crisis and a call for change.”
– Susan Briante, author of Defacing the Monument
Tram Editions, 2025.
“With stunning precision and lush surprise, Natalie Giarratano describes the harrowing experience of birthing her child through an emergency C-section in the opening poems of Molecular Memory. “I am in this room/ when our clustering begins/ but cannot hear her cries/ over the
blood-thrumming./ I’m off taunting the cosmos, baby.” From this position both present to earthly concerns and in dialogue with the cosmic, Giarratano describes the broader challenges of mothering through late capitalism, ecological crisis, and the racism of the twenty-first century. “There is meaning in every minute/ of what is not wasted…” Giarratano writes. “Obliterate the names/ of saints with the true names of trees…” The result is required reading for all of us who might “mother”—biologically, spiritually, or intellectually, across sexes, genders, and species. Molecular Memory is document of crisis and a call for change.”
– Susan Briante, author of Defacing the Monument
