A compelling new volume from one of Canada’s most esteemed voices in poetry, the moon with mars in her arms is an important work delving deep into the heart of life, death and rebirth. Starting from Jungian archetypes, Zonailo combines the personal and the universal to evoke eternal truths of the human condition in language both sensual and spare.

Carolyn Zonailo was born in Vancouver, British Columbia and currently lives in Montreal. She has an M.A. in literature from Simon Fraser University and has published many volumes of poetry. She is the founder of Caitlin Press and also writes reviews, articles, and essays and continues to work as an editor. A student of Jungian and archetypal psychology and a practising astrologer, she served on the councils of the League of Canadian Poets and the Writers’ Union of Canada. Previous books include The Goddess in the Garden (Ekstasis), The Taste of Giving: Selected Poems. (Caitlin Press, 1990) and Winter (Morgaine House, 1998).