Beyond the Watershed
Autor Nadia Alexisen Limba Engleză Paperback – 4 mar 2025
A hybrid collection of poetry and photography, Beyond the Watershed explores the various experiences of a Haitian American daughter and her Haitian immigrant mother. Nadia Alexis crafts a moving portrayal of generational trauma, domestic violence, survival, and reclamation, using stunning imagery drawing from the body, spirit, nature, and cityscapes. Alexis traces journeys to break free–documenting pain, making space for light, becoming a reckoning, connecting with spirit, and writing oneself into new seasons of safe waters, healthy love, and transformation. This vital debut affirms that there's "nothing like the thirst / of Black girls who believe in their own dreams," even as they navigate nonlinear paths to healing. "Sometimes the clouds speak to me / & tell me to look beyond the burning," the daughter declares, as she charts her own path forward.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781960327093
ISBN-10: 1960327097
Pagini: 100
Ilustrații: 8 halftones
Dimensiuni: 147 x 224 x 13 mm
Greutate: 0.16 kg
Editura: CavanKerry Press
ISBN-10: 1960327097
Pagini: 100
Ilustrații: 8 halftones
Dimensiuni: 147 x 224 x 13 mm
Greutate: 0.16 kg
Editura: CavanKerry Press
Notă biografică
Nadia Alexis is a poet, writer, photographer, and daughter of Haitian immigrants. Her writing is published in Poets & Writers, The Global South, Shenandoah, Wild Imperfections: An Anthology of Womanist Poems, and others.
Cuprins
Watershed
Permission
From Haiti to New York
Portraits
Cassette-Letter ‘95
Ma Ritual
Prayer to Èzili Dantò I
Trails
Daddy Ritual
Cantaloupe
Definition
Lament
Prayer to Èzili Dantò II
Lessons
Browsing the Web While Ma is Dying
Granpapa
Self Portrait as a Father’s Daughter
Hopscotch
Scar
When the Hymen Didn’t Break
Prayer to Èzili Dantò III
How to Be Friends With a Sex Worker
I Don’t Own Any Watches
Daughterhood
Devoured
He Reasons
Language
Prayer to Èzili Dantò IV
Thalassophobia
How to Make Yourself Small
A Horse’s Arrival
Elegy for the Unborn
What Happens When You Hug Your Mother
Of Fable & Superstition
Prey
Prayer to Èzili Dantò V
Praise Song for Ma
Self Portrait at the Dominican Hair Salon
Aubade After the Storms
Dreams of Daddy
Suppose You Failed to Cover Your Mouth
& So Evil Spirits Flew Out of Your Body
Photographing Your Mother
Your Therapist Asks in What Ways Are You Like Your Father?
Prayer to Èzili Dantò VI
Knees
Nocturne
Cycle
Letter to My Friend Robert
Someday I’ll Love Nadia Alexis
Birdwoman
Acknowledgments
Permission
From Haiti to New York
Portraits
Cassette-Letter ‘95
Ma Ritual
Prayer to Èzili Dantò I
Trails
Daddy Ritual
Cantaloupe
Definition
Lament
Prayer to Èzili Dantò II
Lessons
Browsing the Web While Ma is Dying
Granpapa
Self Portrait as a Father’s Daughter
Hopscotch
Scar
When the Hymen Didn’t Break
Prayer to Èzili Dantò III
How to Be Friends With a Sex Worker
I Don’t Own Any Watches
Daughterhood
Devoured
He Reasons
Language
Prayer to Èzili Dantò IV
Thalassophobia
How to Make Yourself Small
A Horse’s Arrival
Elegy for the Unborn
What Happens When You Hug Your Mother
Of Fable & Superstition
Prey
Prayer to Èzili Dantò V
Praise Song for Ma
Self Portrait at the Dominican Hair Salon
Aubade After the Storms
Dreams of Daddy
Suppose You Failed to Cover Your Mouth
& So Evil Spirits Flew Out of Your Body
Photographing Your Mother
Your Therapist Asks in What Ways Are You Like Your Father?
Prayer to Èzili Dantò VI
Knees
Nocturne
Cycle
Letter to My Friend Robert
Someday I’ll Love Nadia Alexis
Birdwoman
Acknowledgments
Recenzii
"If you are looking for a love story where the daughter learns through her mother's survival all the ways to eat a mango, cook a meal, bury desire, marry for thunder, or love with noise – these poems are the blueprint for discovery. An assignment in living unabashedly or a lyric for the moved spirit, Nadia Alexis prepares a place at humanity's table for her countrymen with kind hands. A quilt of Haitian language, Kreyol kinship, visual art, and hope, Beyond the Watershed invites every reader to bathe in the brilliance of Black women's burgeoning; Alexis writes us whole within these poetic prayers."
"Nadia Alexis’s heartrending and heart-mending debut collection, Beyond the Watershed , asks us to bear witness to chilling intimate partner violence, then the poet, like the “wounded rooster [who] sings of morning / like it wants to forget the night, // invites [our] eyes to open like curtains.” A stunning poetic and visual account of survival that refuses to sugarcoat, Beyond the Watershed begins as prayer and ends as its own extraordinary answer to prayer."
"'How many times have you imagined a lush field / of passion vines & keys to all doors you wish / to escape through?' Nadia Alexis asks in Beyond the Watershed. Her debut collection shatters and mourns in a blur of white dresses, wild grasses, stripped forests, and object portraits in black-and-white photographs that both soften and deepen the starkness of the poems. Even though “there’s no choice / in how the wounding is served,” an elegant and musical toughness of spirit underlies this bold-colored, lush-natured, raw-hearted work. We meet “Èzili Dantò’s child / armed with scarred vines & silver” as she navigates the caustic inheritances of repeated intimate violations, and oceans of colonial damage that will never disappear. But we also witness elemental transformations as we hear the praise songs, when she awakens to the power of a world she can make for herself. In it, prayers and imagination, self-protection and voice-finding break the trap, make the scars of harm fade back until new skin grows over and, Alexis writes, “Everything we can dream is blooming & true.”