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    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

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Ground Provisions

Ground Provisions

Morgan, Shauna M.

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General Poetry

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ISBN10: 1845236017
ISBN13: 9781845236014
Publisher: Peepal Tree Press
Published: Nov 20 2025
Pages: 102
Weight: 0.25
Height: 0.40 Width: 5.29 Depth: 8.04
Language: English

Shauna M. Morgan takes us on a sensory journey across landscapes of the body and the earth. Immersing readers in lush language and imagery, the collection traverses the natural world from the Caribbean to North America and provokes questions about identity in the making of diasporas and the formation of multi-ethnic realities. What remains and what is created anew? Who emerges at the fissures of culture? What is learned from human relationships with the land? How do we make provisions between generations? These poems guide us through a backabush Jamaican community to an often-hostile US environment as they interrogate power, follow the desire for freedom, explore the necessity of ancestral memory, and answer the crucial need to touch the earth and each other. Sonnet and sestina walk alongside contemporary poetic forms such as haibun and duplex to explore family origins and Afro-Indo cultural syncretism while offering intimate views of the speakers and their interior lives. Through intertwined familial and historical inheritances, these poems ask us to imagine the liberatory possibilities of establishing new roots with legacy seeds.

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