In this electrifying debut poetry collection--written with the ferocity of Rita Dove´s groundbreaking Thomas and Beulah--a critically acclaimed award-winning talent explores a wide range of emotions, from anxiety to ecstasy reflecting the moon´s phases, from Waning Gibbous to Full. Both intimate and intricately structured Tramaine Suubi´s remarkable work is inspired by the moon--its phases´ effects on water, the Earth, and our bodies. Phases relishes in the beauty of change, even that caused by heartbreak. Suubi´s refreshing, vulnerable verse begs to be underlined, memorized, and shared; each of her poems operate as love letters to the cyclical healing that occurs in nature, in our bodies, and in the bodies that have come before us.