Everything Is Water: Poems Volume 13
Paperback
Series: The Trp Southern Poetry Breakthrough
Publisher Price: $21.95
ISBN13: 9781680034585
Publisher: Trp: The University Press of Shsu
Published: Mar 25 2026
Pages: 74
Weight: 0.35
Height: 0.28 Width: 7.00 Depth: 9.10
Language: English
Everything Is Water is an open letter to caregivers as the speaker grapples with her partner's life-threatening illness, pregnancy and new motherhood, and marriage. Growing up on the Virginia coast, the speaker knows the water's danger and allure--asks, what is beneath, what has control in so much open and unknown space? The speaker continues to feel this unease in everything as she navigates fear, identity, and loss. Everything is water. Everything is the surface tension created by the unknown. The collection often returns to the water and those inhabiting it, but it also looks to winged creatures, those on land, and those who are in between elements as they wrestle with their own survival. Water is an element that sustains and devours. When danger comes, we wonder when it will end. We ask how we can live with loss. Is it easier to run away? To let go? Everything Is Water leaves the reader suspended, treading water alongside the speaker as she seeks to answer these questions.
The TRP Southern Poetry Breakthrough Series: Virginia
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