Milk & Moon-water Ai Zhiguang Returning repeatedly to the figure

Returning repeatedly to the figure of a vulnerable boy approaching the thicket of adolescence

and who we thought we would become

the twenty-first century's plague seems unlikely to encourage much liberation in the popular mind

2007) and A Shopping Mall on Mars (2008)

he lived in Milwaukee where he was a Professor in the English Department at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and taught creative writing

Milk & Moon-water Ai Zhiguang Returning repeatedly to the figureA Sudden Stitch. Unfruitful Land. A Fever. In Milk & Moon water, Milena Williamson uncovers 11 Old English metrical charms ancient incantations spoken to ward off harm creatively translating them into magical and medicinal spells for the modern reader. Alongside each reimagining is an original charm poem, a remixed and new telling of an old text. Covering the climate crisis, illness, ageing and fertility, this collection of charms ranges from the