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 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 prot...