{"product_id":"a-body-of-water-poems-paperback","title":"A Body of Water: Poems - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eChioma Urama\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBeautiful and lyrical, Chioma Urama's \u003ci\u003eA Body of Water\u003c\/i\u003e is a poetic exploration of ancestry in the American South. These poems are the result of a conversation Urama opened with her ancestors, whose documented and oral histories have been fragmented by a history of enslavement. Urama's examination of generational trauma collapses linear time and posits that the traumas of the past are present within the consciousness of our bodies until we transmute the energy surrounding them. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe work ebbs and flows between pared-down poems where erasure and white space take on substance and roiling lyric essays that fold in divergent voices from historic documents, music, and film. This collection is both vulnerable and political; a meditation on love and grief; an exploration of loss and connectivity. These poems embrace imagination as a tool to emotionally traverse spaces within history that we are told we cannot enter. \u003ci\u003eA Body of Water\u003c\/i\u003e is an act of remembering, engaging with the idea that \"all water has a perfect memory,\" and nothing is ever truly lost.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eCHIOMA URAMA's poetry and fiction have been published in the \u003ci\u003eSouthern Humanities Review\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003ePleiades\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eBlackbird\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003ePaper Darts\u003c\/i\u003e, the \u003ci\u003eNormal School\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003ePrairie Schooner\u003c\/i\u003e. She received a Fred Shaw Fiction Prize and an honorable mention from the \u003ci\u003eLindenwood Review\u003c\/i\u003e Lyric Essay Contest. Urama is a Benjamin A. Gilman International Scholarship alumna and a graduate of the University of Miami MFA program, where she was a Michener Fellow. She teaches creative writing and English composition at the University of New Orleans.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 104\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.3 x 8.4 x 7.7 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e February 15, 2021\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51769047023904,"sku":"9780820358574","price":24.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/f9771e7a29be67dfea9267bdd8f0d142.webp?v=1780341515","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/a-body-of-water-poems-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}