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).
PRAISE:
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
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