{"product_id":"what-water-knows-poems-9780810143845","title":"What Water Knows Poems","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJacqueline Jones LaMon delivers a stunning third collection that shows the elements of life that both unite us and create our greatest distances. What Water Knows transports the reader from drought to drowning, from the transatlantic Middle Passage to the breaking of water, from water wielded as a weapon to used as a reward.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Such a vibrant and beautiful book. I truly read it with my heart in my throat. LaMon speaks a language at once as familiar and foreign as love itself—with so much love. There is such a deep quietude to this book. She takes us beneath the covers of what it means to be a woman, to be a mother, to be Black, to be trapped—and finally, what it means to be free. I cannot wait for this book to be in the world. Everything I needed right now.” — Jacqueline Woodson, National Book Award winner and the author of\u003ci\u003e Red at the Bone: A Novel\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“With intimacy and clarity, \u003ci\u003eWhat Water Knows\u003c\/i\u003e offers us transcendent, lyric language that explores womanhood, race, history, justice, love, and the politics of our identities contained by the memory of water, released by it, or both. Fluid in her craft, LaMon’s powers are fully claimed here. In a poem about womanhood, she writes ‘We were our own fine line, \/ never crossed.’ Elsewhere LaMon asks a timeless question for us all: ‘What is it you need when you’re fleeing your home?’ The poet’s intuition and intelligence rise and crest without ending, and in remarkable turns of self-knowledge, strength, and grace, the intimations of water are as elusive and marvelous as the poet’s desire. Indispensable and elemental, \u003ci\u003eWhat Water Knows\u003c\/i\u003e achieves a truth that does not spare our most primal needs. Aware of the ordinary and celestial energy of language itself, and what it may mean to choose to speak at all in any form, the poet writes, ‘Some would say there are no oceans between us, only \/ land. I would say it all depends on the direction we choose to face.’” — Rachel Eliza Griffiths, author of \u003ci\u003eSeeing the Body: Poems\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eI: This Fragile, Resilient Life\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e No One Eats Icicles Anymore \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Her Silk Scarf Was Blood-Soaked by I-495 \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Travelogue  \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e What Happens When a Brother Flees \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Up the River \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e “Governor Snyder Drinks Flint Water”  \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Pipeline \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Lemonade  \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Mob  \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Six  \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Niagara \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Ownership  \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e What Is Human, or Culture, or Left Hanging in the Air \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e All That We Need to Be Happy  \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e On Watch for the Spontaneous \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e The Garonne River Shifts Her Direction  \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Classification Is the Beginning of Our Greatest Understanding \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Nine to the Limit \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Prodigal \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e The Browning  \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eII: The Open, Empty Mouth\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e We Could Walk into the Waters, or Leave Life as It Seems  \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Thermostat  \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e This Wholeness, Beyond Everything We Know  \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e With a View of the Water from Stable, Cleared Ground \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Disregarding the Alarm  \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e The Night Before Euthanasia  \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e What We Wear to Meet the Water \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Cleansing My Mother’s Cold Body \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e The Merchant Seaman’s Wife \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Rockaway \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e And All the Rest Will Have Washed Away \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Quiet on the Set \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Still Life \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Polar Vortex \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e My Body Speaks of Hatred  \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Water, Water Everywhere, But How Am I to Drink? \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Martini \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eIII: The Promise of Relief\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e The Latitude, The Longitude, and a Third Axis Called Time  \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Socratic \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e We Put So Much Faith in the Power of Doors  \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Cruise to Nowhere \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Bathwater \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Breaking \u0026amp; Entering  \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Ornithology  \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Aftermath  \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Holding \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Boarding the Six Train at Brooklyn Bridge \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e No Matter What the Incline, The River Around Us Still Flows \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Primate \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e The Death and the Dying, A Million Times Over  \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e It Is Happy Hour, Somewhere  \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e There Are Some Things We Can’t Create in Life \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e There are Sixty-Five Steps Between There and Here \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e The Only Time We Think of It Is When It’s No Longer There  \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Bay One \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Currency  \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e What To Do When Everything Gets Tossed from the Vessel \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e And Tomorrow, We Learn to Name the Air \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Skully \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e In the Beginning  \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Commitment \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e That Which We Reach for When Given the Chance \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Acknowledgements  \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"Northwestern University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51038272291159,"sku":"9780810143845","price":15.26,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780810143845.jpg?v=1750939728","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/what-water-knows-poems-9780810143845","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}