The Seeds: Poems

Author: Cecily Parks

Publisher: Alice James Books (2025)

"With The Seeds, her third book, Cecily Parks comes into her full powers. These poems are dark, lavish, far-reaching and subtly layered, making a harsh and rich mirror of the pastoral and the domestic...This book is a delight, a feast of grief and determined celebration."

—Craig Morgan Teicher

"Women and the natural world take center stage in these precise and visionary poems by Parks. The collection interrogates interiority, motherhood, and the choices of famous female figures ... Parks memorably evokes the textures and intricacies of life on earth."

—Publishers Weekly