When the Ghosts Come Ashore

by Jacqui Germain

Overview

Jacqui Germain’s poems in When the Ghosts Come Ashore situate St. Louis as the archetypal American city: it’s here she explores the intersections of race, gender, and violence, here she finds the ghosts of those who still hunger for freedom. But Germain still carves out space for love. As Phillip B. Williams writes of these poems, “Placelessness is the place, leaving only the unsafety of flesh as a hideout. Black presences break from the margins and pierce through these hard lyrics.”

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781943735167
Publisher:	Button Poetry
Publication date:	03/21/2020
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	200
File size:	159 KB

About the Author

Jacqui Germain is a freelance writer, essayist, Callaloo Fellow and Pushcart Prize-nominated poet living in St. Louis, Missouri. Her writing focuses on historical and contemporary iterations of black, brown and indigenous resistance, which she believes is deeply urgent work that both exists on the page and extends beyond it. Jacqui has represented Washington University in St. Louis on the national poetry stage on five separate occasions and was the 2014 Katherine Dunham Fellow with the St. Louis Regional Arts Commission. Price: $12.00