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The Shoes of the Fisherman's Wife: Poems

The Shoes of the Fisherman's Wife: Poems

Upfromsumdirt

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General Poetry

Publisher Price: $19.95

ISBN10: 1985903466
ISBN13: 9781985903463
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Published: Oct 14 2025
Pages: 154
Weight: 0.40
Height: 0.50 Width: 5.00 Depth: 8.20
Language: English

The shoes of the fisherman's wifeare 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 protest against the world's injustices. The voice in these poems is both intimate and international, welcoming us into his soul and taking us on a sweeping journey through the Black diaspora. In the process, upfromsumdirt demonstrates the complexity of Blackness by examining the portal of his own body through space and time and interrogating its binds.

The Shoes of the Fisherman's Wife is a place to linger and wonder, to mourn and laugh, and to bear witness to the living and the dead.

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