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Weight of Water
Paperback
Publisher Price: $21.99
Publisher: Finishing Line Press
Published: Jan 16 2026
Pages: 44
Weight: 0.18
Height: 0.11 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
Weight of Water navigates the terrain of loss - the death of a mother, the foreclosure of home, the vanishing of species, and the desecration of the planet. These poems do not turn away but move toward the heart of the dying, bearing witness with a poet's tenderness and a mystic's insight. Through narrative and introspective verse-buoyant even in sorrow - Samantha Wallen opens a space where grief and beauty, impermanence and wonder, exist in the same breath.
Rooted in the Bardic tradition and a literature of restoration, Wallen's voice invites us to inhabit what is both broken and luminous. Each poem listens for what still sings in the midst of collapse, reminding us that the act of seeing and naming is itself a form of devotion.
Endorsed by poets Andrew Schelling, Tim Z. Hernandez, and Nan Seymour, Weight of Water is both elegy and survival manual - a collection that honors our shared fragility while revealing the fierce continuity of life. In a world marked by great dying, these poems call us back to presence, asking how we might still love this burning earth with vigor, how we might still be restored through language and witness.
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