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    612-822-4611

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Beyond the Watershed

Beyond the Watershed

Shockley, Evie
Alexis, Nadia

Paperback

Series: Emerging Voices

General Poetry

Publisher Price: $18.00

ISBN10: 1960327097
ISBN13: 9781960327093
Publisher: CavanKerry Press
Published: Mar 4 2025
Pages: 100
Weight: 0.35
Height: 0.50 Width: 5.80 Depth: 8.80
Language: English
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.

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