Full-length, Paper

Debut

979-8-88838-404-6

2023

Jennifer Bartell Boykin is the Poet Laureate of the City of Columbia, South Carolina.

Traveling Mercy navigates the journeys of a Black woman from rural South Carolina. Her travels transcend time as she encounters history, nature, and grief. She sits with the eldest residents before her birth, with the first ancestor who came to these shores, with her parents through their marriage, and through her own loneliness in the wake of their deaths. Planting as she harvests, this book is a lament and a love story to survival.