The shoes of the fisherman's wife : poems /
The shoes of the fisherman's wife are coated with Kentucky dust and soil. They travel across oceans to ask questions of Egypt's deities, of Mali's Mansa Musa, of Nigeria's musician-activist Fela Kuti. In sonically rich, surrealist poems with nature at their heart and a touch of a...
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| Language: | English |
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Lexington :
University Press of Kentucky,
[2025].
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| Summary: | The shoes of the fisherman's wife are coated with Kentucky dust and soil. They travel across oceans to ask questions of Egypt's deities, of Mali's Mansa Musa, of Nigeria's musician-activist Fela Kuti. In sonically rich, surrealist poems with nature at their heart and a touch of absurdism, upfromsumdirt creates an experience on the page that is of our moment and beyond it. Simultaneously mythic and realist, this collection is an invitation to sway in a swell of Black love and to stomp in protest against the world's injustices. The voice in these poems is both intimate and international, welcoming us into his soul and taking us on a sweeping journey through the Black diaspora. In the process, upfromsumdirt demonstrates the complexity of Blackness by examining the portal of his own body through space and time and interrogating its binds. |
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| Physical Description: | 142 pages ; 23 cm. |
| ISBN: | 9781985903456 1985903458 9781985903463 1985903466 |