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Got Some River In Us by Nancy Dafoe

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Got Some River in Us takes on a number of challenges to become its whole: the skill and understanding of ekphrasis as the poem converses with the art, the book-length poem itself, but also a work that braids science, nature, history, and social justice, in a bold yet controlled voice. It is the poetry of place and of witness in its best sense. Nancy Dafoe brings to mind Allison Hedge Coke, Crystal Williams, Martha Collins, Robin Wall Kimmerer, Sai Shōnagon, and Barbara Kingsolver, writers who see the complexity of the world around us and render their visions and truth to words, as the poem carves its way through the pages like the river it celebrates.

–Georgia A. Popoff, Author of Living with Haints and other works

 

 

Got Some River In Us

by Nancy Dafoe

Full-length Paper

979-8-89990-353-3

2026

This title will be released on February 13, 2026

Got Some River in Us, Mosaic of the Yazoo-Mississippi Delta is a long-form poem in five parts, a collage of interrelated art and words, and an immersion in the pre-history and history of the rivers and delta; the art and culture of the region; the natural world and the Delta; and commentary on the grave faults and extraordinary gifts of the Delta and its peoples. Award-winning, New York State poet and educator Nancy Avery Dafoe and nationally awarded Mississippi artist Jamie Tate worked together over the course of several years to bring this rich, singular experience to readers. Dafoe and Tate are members of the National League of American Pen Women. #poetry, #Mississippi Delta, #Delta music and culture, #Mississippi River history, #Slavery and the Blues, #art and artists of the Delta, #American history, #Great Bird Migration Corridor 

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Poet/author/educator Nancy Avery Dafoe has written 16 published books across genres. Her most recent ones include this poetry collection, the novel Yet in the Land of the Living (WingsePress, 2024), and a memoir Unstuck in Time (PWP, 2021). Unstuck in Time won the Director’s Choice Award for 2023 from Human Relations Indie Books, and Socrates is Dead Again won first place for realistic fiction from Human Relations Indie Books in 2023. Her poetry has won numerous awards, including the national William Faulkner/Wisdom Award (2016).  

 

 

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