The Seed is Waiting in the Dark confronts the realities of ecological catastrophe with the lyric intensity of a life lived reckoning with questions of collective survival. Intimate poems about family give way to broader meditations on climate change, the Korean War, and growing food. Included within this debut collection are five of Goldberg's paintings, which poignantly illustrate these feral, visionary poems. Full of grief, grace, and lessons from the land, The Seed is Waiting in the Dark conjures ancestral instincts to claim belonging within the cycles of natural life. Goldberg's luminous debut collection allows us to peer into an extraordinarily intimate partnership with nature. It is a contemplation on mothers and motherlessness, and how despite a legacy of harm, Mother Earth nurtures, heals, and teaches us how to live. These vivid and urgent poems read as a love story with the land, reminding us that our ancestral connections cannot be so easily broken. -Seo Choi, Publisher, Alpha Sisters Publishing This collection of powerful invocations is a profound inquiry into the beautiful and painful holding of lineages, languages, names, and wounds in a corporeal body. In the lineage of haunted texts like Theresa Hak Kyung Cha's Dictee, this text feels channeled, unafraid of the clarity that deep grief brings, declaring unabashedly, "Death was kin." These poems resonate with mentions of the gut, notably, "How can you gut your Mother's lungs?" and I think about the significance of gut feelings, the concept of Korean han 한 held in the gut, and also gut 굿, the cleansing rites performed by Korean shamans. Goldberg writes, "If women's tears / are healing rain / there must be grief enough / for our vision to return." This book is a gift, a ritual, a revelation. -Janice Lee, Author of Imagine a Death and Separation Anxiety Meesha Goldberg is a Korean American poet and artist living on ancestral Monacan territory, Virginia. Her experiences growing food, serving as an activist, and journeying to sacred places have made her a powerful advocate for the Earth. The Seed Is Waiting In the Dark is a deeply personal contemplation of land, lineage, and survival in the age of the Anthropocene, featuring paintings from her series "Daughterland."