Cicatrizing the Daughters by Samantha Moe

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Cicatrizing the Daughters is a collection of liminal spaces, moving from New York City apartments and streets to the houses and backroads of suburbs. Weaving together gastronomy, fantasy, and ecology, these poems tell the stories of queerness and love as it shifts between landscapes and haunted spaces. The speaker(s) are working in restaurants and kitchens, trying to (re)claim their identities and stories, and maybe saving themselves in the process.

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Sam Moe received a PhD in Creative Writing from Illinois State University (2023) and an MFA in Creative Writing from Converse College (2019). Sam has received residencies from VCCA and Château d’Orquevaux. She is the recipient of a 2023 St. Joe Community Foundation Poetry Fellowship from Longleaf Writers Conference and a workshop scholarship from the Keywest Literary Seminar. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming from Whale Road Review, The Indianapolis Review, Sundog Lit, and others. She is a third-generation Ecuadorian-American with publications in Spanish and English. Her first full-length collection, Heart Weeds, was published with Alien Buddha Press (Sept. ’22) and her second full-length collection Grief Birds was published with Bullshit Lit (Apr. ’23). Her third full-length Cicatrizing the Daughters is forthcoming from FlowerSong Press. You can find her on X and Instagram as @SamAnneMoe.

“Cicatrizing the Daughters is a return to everything that is still there, somehow, long after you’ve left and changed and loved and hurt and grown and shrunk. Sam Moe paves a map for you to get lost in—old haunts become new again, and buildings long forgotten or abandoned twist into things freshly wounded and remembered. This collection will hold your hand and walk you through the depths of memories and feelings you couldn’t remember otherwise—sandwiches kept warm in coats, the 1 train, awnings and bodega cats in New York City, the ocean wrapped around past loves, and the ghosts that still live in the kitchen.”

— (re)becca meier, author of small wings

“Sam Moe skillfully navigates the crashing waves of traumatic memory in this dynamic collection of vivid prose poems and hybrid work. Her dynamic work expands in the reader's psyche and excites, full of melancholy musings and longing for a connection with patience, love and peace. A striking book!”

— Jose Hernandez Diaz, author of Bad Mexican, Bad American

“In Moe's collection Cicatrizing the Daughters, Moe positions her love for family, friends and lovers as one of inquiry and arrest. A love letter to mothers, fathers, past lovers, and New York City, Moe writes of unrequited love with a requited understanding and confidence that no matter the meaning or understanding of love, it is enough to just love. In such a beautiful and tender collection, Moe's resolve is found in kitchens, bedrooms, and eating fruit with loved ones who are there and those who aren't.”

— m.s. Redcherries, author of Mother