Publications

What Blooms in the Dark

Tracing the poet’s journey of release, return, and rebirth, this debut collection dives into the dark necessarily, as a precursive measure for arching back up toward the light. Poems that recount generational violence and addiction converse with others that conjure healing and illumination in the cycles of nature. What Blooms in the Dark, ultimately, is a work of spiritual transformation and the power of love.  

Published by Moon Tide Press.
$15.00

Praise for What Blooms

  • “Emily Mundy's debut collection of poems is every flower of a girl shedding petals into womanhood, every child hefting the inheritance of addiction, and every love that offers distraction, joy, or grace from the call a knife makes to the flesh. Mundy says, "Let me feed you all the years I’ve been gnawing on" and our mouths are full—language so delicious that we are happy to swallow the gristle of bitterness. An absented body described from inside the skin with honey-thick words weaves so sweetly together themes of abuse and abandonment, grief and death, addiction and dysphoria, that they become blood-chorus, bones singing.” 

    – Amber Flame, author of Ordinary Cruelty and apocrifa

  • “Emily’s book is sensual and singed, a spell of smoke and ocean. The body finds and loses track of itself, in the mother’s hand-me-downs, in a skeleton in the closet, in a “lace of organs.” “Estranged ecstasy” takes cover in the cleaved and split but through the attention of myriad eyes—eyes as moths, as gnarled hands, glassy eyes and an eye on a solo journey, an eye deemed insignificant, eyes full throttle, and flying eyes—ecstasy returns, “an electrical conduit unable to un-feel.”

    – Melanie Noel, author of The Monarchs

  • “Emily Mundy's new collection is like "vanilla on fire." It is smoking with fresh imagery, swallowing the old scenery. This book is witchy as hell, desperate, coy, wanting, smartly sexy, and it has come back from the thick woods, ready to sneak from your shelf, into your bed, dirtying it up until you wake in the night and understand all it has seen.”

    – Derrick C. Brown, author of Love Ends in a Tandem Kayak

  • “Hers is redemptive work.”

    – Rebecca Brown, author of Not Heaven, Somewhere Else

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Plunge EP

Plunge–a collaborative EP by Emily J. Mundy and Ran Park–weaves original poems and piano compositions together in a succinct, but potent offering. Each poem was created in conversation with the landscape of the Pacific Northwest, honoring the healing, transformative power held within the cycles of nature. Ethereal piano compositions provide a mystical background to the language, imbuing the poems with new life as they are transported off the page.

Other Works

Vagabond City Lit | For Passing Down to Daughters April 2023

Another New Calligraphy | versions of A Stash of Days, This Worthy Work (Thin Hours), and The Blooming October 2021

Dark Days Tarot | Guidebook author 2017