Motherlines
by Mary Saracino
February 2026
Original trade paperback ISBN 9781597191050 | 160 pp | $16.95
Ebook ISBN 9781597191067 | $6.99
Motherlines focuses on matrilineal female empowerment, reclaiming one’s ancestral roots, celebrating the healing power of nature, and naming the many ways that women mother the world. It joins the ongoing international collective effort encouraging women to reclaim their voices and take back their power to make the world a better place for all.
Saracino’s poems speak to the human need for sovereignty, equality, connection, compassion, and justice — because another world and a more just future is possible if we envision it and work to create it.
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PRAISE for Motherlines
“I feel the soul power of the feminist poet Mary Saracino. Motherlines takes you to the Roots of ALL,
the Mother. Mothers are everywhere — in homelands, foresisters, and Nature — invigorating everyone.
Mary leads you to sing, roar, and search for the depth of living in the Reality of WE HERE NOW with her.”
Helen Hye-Sook Hwang, Ph.D.
Founding Director of The Mago Network
“Mary Saracino‘s new collection of poetry is a savory remembering of the divine connections
between women. Her vivid words pull at your heartstrings, allowing for both grief and healing
around the personal and collective motherline.
“I was saddened to reach the last page — and hungry for more. The gift of great poetry
is that you can come back to it again and again. Motherlines is a collection
that will surely be feasted upon numerous times. Buy a copy for yourself —
and a stack for your most beloved friends and family.”
Trista Hendren
Girl God Books
“In her powerful new collection of poems, Motherlines, Mary Saracino uses lush language
and gripping imagery to give her readers a personal and historical view of mothers, foremothers,
mother goddesses, and female icons in the context of our lives today.
Saracino’s inspiring poems are a call to action to honor women’s strengths and struggles
and to find in ourselves the courage to work against war, intolerance, violence,
and ecological destruction.”
Maria Fama
author of Trigger
“In Motherlines, the essential language of poetry is braided in its many possibilities.
Mary Saracino pairs words in unaccustomed forms to shed light on the unspoken visions of female roots.
The bonds of humankind in the living organism of Nature are told through women’s eyes, bodies,
and wisdom.
“Four threads weave horrors and defiance, diaspora and perilous times, the foreign tongue of docility
with the guerilla knitters’ fierce dedication to fight for another future, healing wounds and injustice, igniting the courage in each of us, now, ‘as if we were the last children on Earth.'”
Luciana Percovich
nonfiction writer, teacher, translator, grandmother and author of
She who gives life, She who gives form: Female Cosmogonies (2021)
“Mary Saracino‘s Motherlines is a collection of prose poems divided into 4 sections:
Mother-roots, Motherland, Mother Nature, Mother Lode. Each is packed with the sheer genius
of the poet’s ability to express in both an intimate and worldly language the profound changes
we are undergoing in the feminine archetype in our time. From her intimate opening with her mother,
Margaret…to the poet’s contemplations of relatives, ancestral homes, Mother Nature,
and the challenges we face in our Earth home, Mary’s passion, grief, love, anger,
and a broad range of emotions offer the reader truth, wholeness, and genuine compassion
in a time of lies, injustice and distortion.
I can’t praise this book enough except to say I savored every page
and felt myself healed with every word.”
Louisa Calio
internationally award-winning poet
author of In the Eye of Balance and Journey to the Heart Waters
