Beyond the Watershed

Häftad, Engelska, 2025

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A hybrid collection that explores the dual nature of water as both a destructive and healing force, mirroring the experiences of Black women and girls. A hybrid collection of poetry and photography, Beyond the Watershed explores the various experiences of a Haitian American daughter and her Haitian immigrant mother. Nadia Alexis crafts a moving portrayal of generational trauma, domestic violence, survival, and reclamation, using stunning imagery drawing from the body, spirit, nature, and cityscapes. Alexis traces journeys to break free–documenting pain, making space for light, becoming a reckoning, connecting with spirit, and writing oneself into new seasons of safe waters, healthy love, and transformation. This vital debut affirms that there's "nothing like the thirst / of Black girls who believe in their own dreams," even as they navigate nonlinear paths to healing. "Sometimes the clouds speak to me / & tell me to look beyond the burning," the daughter declares, as she charts her own path forward.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2025-03-04
Mått152 x 229 x 13 mm
Vikt172 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
SerieEmerging Voices
Antal sidor100
FörlagCavanKerry Press
MedarbetareShockley,Evie
ISBN9781960327093

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WatershedPermissionFrom Haiti to New YorkPortraitsCassette-Letter ‘95Ma RitualPrayer to Èzili Dantò ITrailsDaddy RitualCantaloupeDefinitionLamentPrayer to Èzili Dantò IILessonsBrowsing the Web While Ma is DyingGranpapaSelf Portrait as a Father’s DaughterHopscotchScarWhen the Hymen Didn’t BreakPrayer to Èzili Dantò IIIHow to Be Friends With a Sex WorkerI Don’t Own Any WatchesDaughterhoodDevouredHe ReasonsLanguagePrayer to Èzili Dantò IVThalassophobiaHow to Make Yourself SmallA Horse’s ArrivalElegy for the UnbornWhat Happens When You Hug Your MotherOf Fable & SuperstitionPreyPrayer to Èzili Dantò VPraise Song for MaSelf Portrait at the Dominican Hair SalonAubade After the StormsDreams of DaddySuppose You Failed to Cover Your Mouth& So Evil Spirits Flew Out of Your BodyPhotographing Your MotherYour Therapist Asks in What Ways Are You Like Your Father?Prayer to Èzili Dantò VIKneesNocturneCycleLetter to My Friend RobertSomeday I’ll Love Nadia AlexisBirdwomanAcknowledgments

"If you are looking for a love story where the daughter learns through her mother's survival all the ways to eat a mango, cook a meal, bury desire, marry for thunder, or love with noise – these poems are the blueprint for discovery. An assignment in living unabashedly or a lyric for the moved spirit, Nadia Alexis prepares a place at humanity's table for her countrymen with kind hands. A quilt of Haitian language, Kreyol kinship, visual art, and hope, Beyond the Watershed invites every reader to bathe in the brilliance of Black women's burgeoning; Alexis writes us whole within these poetic prayers."