{"product_id":"the-shoes-of-the-fishermans-wife-poems-paperback","title":"The Shoes of the Fisherman's Wife: Poems - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eUpfromsumdirt\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe shoes of the fisherman's wife\u003ci\u003e\u003c\/i\u003eare coated with Kentucky dust and soil. They travel across oceans to ask questions of Egypt's deities, of Mali's Mansa Musa, of Nigeria's musician-activist Fela Kuti. In sonically rich, surrealist poems with nature at their heart and a touch of absurdism, upfromsumdirt creates an experience on the page that is of our moment and beyond it.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSimultaneously mythic and realist, this collection is an invitation to sway in a swell of Black love and to stomp in protest against the world's injustices. The voice in these poems is both intimate and international, welcoming us into his soul and taking us on a sweeping journey through the Black diaspora. In the process, upfromsumdirt demonstrates the complexity of Blackness by examining the portal of his own body through space and time and interrogating its binds.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003ci\u003eThe Shoes of the Fisherman's Wife\u003c\/i\u003e is a place to linger and wonder, to mourn and laugh, and to bear witness to the living and the dead.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003cb\u003eupfromsumdirt\u003c\/b\u003e, \u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003eaka Ronald W. Davis, is an autodidactic poet, visual artist, and designer from Louisville, Kentucky. He is the illustrator of \u003ci\u003eA Is for Affrilachia\u003c\/i\u003e and the NAACP Image Award-winning \u003ci\u003ePerfect Black\u003c\/i\u003e. He is the author of many chapbooks and the full-length collections \u003ci\u003eThe Second Stop Is Jupiter: Poems\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eTo Emit Teal\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eDeifying a Total Darkness\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 154\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.5 x 8.2 x 5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e October 14, 2025\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42536065859664,"sku":"9781985903463","price":28.55,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0592\/9540\/0016\/files\/mg18nLlWfg9781985903463.webp?v=1781496899","url":"https:\/\/palm-malen-gift-shop-pmrc.myshopify.com\/products\/the-shoes-of-the-fishermans-wife-poems-paperback","provider":"Palm Malen Gift Shop -PMRC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}