Another Way to Split Water

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In Alycia Pirmohamed's debut collection, Another Way to Split Water, language unfolds into unforgettable and arresting imagery, offering a map toward self-understanding that is dee ply rooted in place. A woman's body expands and contracts across the page, fog uncoils at the fringes of a forest, and water in all its forms cascades into metaphors of longing and separation just as often as it signals inheritance, revival, and recuperation. These poems are a lyrical exploration of how ancestral memory reforms and transforms throughout generations, through stories told and retold, imagined and reimagined. It is a meditation on womanhood, belonging, faith, intimacy, and the natural world. Show more