Ankle-Deep in Pacific Water

E. Hughes

Ankle-Deep in Pacific Water
Format
Hardback
Publisher
Haymarket Books
Country
United States
Published
22 January 2025
Pages
96
ISBN
9798888903049

Ankle-Deep in Pacific Water

E. Hughes

A debut collection of lyric poems interrogating the generational implications of the Great Migration to Northern California. the state's insistence that it is/was not involved in the US' projects of imperialism or chattel slavery), Hughes illuminates the intersections of history, grief, and violence. reveals in its pages that, while many things have changed over time, ultimately the question of what "freedom" meant and looked like for Black people in the early 20th century retains the same murkiness and contradictions for Black people today.

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