Waterbaby

by Nikki Wallschlaeger

In her astounding third collection, Nikki Wallschlaeger turns to water--the natural element of grief--to trace history's interconnected movements through family, memory, and day-to-day survival. Waterbaby is a book about Blackness, language, and motherhood in America; about the ancestral joys and sharp pains that travel together through the nervous system's crowded riverways; about the holy sanctuary of the bathtub for a spirit that's pushed beyond...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1556596138
• ISBN13: 9781556596131
• Release Date: April 2021
• Publisher: Copper Canyon Press
• Length: 96 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.6" x 8.3"