The Soul Is in the Stomach

The Soul Is in the Stomach takes the reader through the poignant multiplicities of the human experience. Via vivid and vulnerable poetic storytelling, poet Lucy Rattner weaves an intimate tapestry of love, amorous misadventure, loss, mental health, and more. Above all, The Soul Is in the Stomach serves as a relatable testament to this existence's inevitable transience: "change is in the air / the future is unmapped / and we shake in fear."