Alexa Patrick

Sep 6, 2024 | haymarketbooks.org | E. A. Hughes |Maya Marshall |Brionne Janae |Alexa Patrick

"Sorting through the wreckage of personal and collective history, Ankle-Deep In Pacific Water neutralizes what might otherwise haunt and destroy. Hughes does the work of all great poets: holds the truths of love and pain, letting both live in the light."—Kemi Alabi, author of Against Heaven "Hughes looks with clear-eyes at human frailty and failure, asks questions that lead readers to ponder their own archives of memory.