{"id":2298,"date":"2013-08-21T19:11:18","date_gmt":"2013-08-21T19:11:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fourwaybooks.com\/site\/?page_id=2298"},"modified":"2022-11-03T13:10:18","modified_gmt":"2022-11-03T17:10:18","slug":"hemming-the-water","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/fourwaybooks.com\/site\/hemming-the-water\/","title":{"rendered":"Hemming the Water"},"content":{"rendered":"

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paper \u2022 88 pages \u2022 15.95
\nISBN-13:\u00a0978-1-935536-32-1<\/p>\n

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Hemming the Water<\/em> by Yona Harvey is the recipient of the 2014 Kate Tufts Discovery Award,\u00a0<\/span>a finalist for the 2014 Ohioana Book Award,\u00a0<\/span>a\u00a0nominee for the 2014\u00a0Hurston\/Wright Legacy Award in Poetry, and a finalist for the 2013 IndieFab Award for Poetry.<\/span><\/h5>\n
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Hemming the Water<\/em><\/h1>\n

Yona Harvey<\/h2>\n

Channeling the collection\u2019s muse\u2014jazz composer and pianist Mary Lou Williams\u2014Hemming the Water\u00a0<\/i>speaks to the futility of trying to mend or straighten a life that is constantly changing. Here the spiritual and the secular comingle in a \u201cFierce fragmentation, lonely tune.\u201d Often mimicking fairy tales or ancient fables, Yona Harvey inhabits, challenges, and explores the many facets of the female self\u2014as daughter, mother, sister, wife, and artist\u2014both on a personal level (\u201cTo describe my body walking I must go back \/ to my mother\u2019s body walking\u201d) and on a cultural level (\u201cA woman weighs the price of beauty\u2014\u201d).<\/p>\n

Harvey employs a variety of voices in embodying Williams\u2019 tenacity, spiritual devotion, and love of music, each speaker a vibrant part of the whole: “I\u2019ve trembled among strangers \/ & lovers turned strangers, my small voice collapsed in solitary song.” We always come back to song\u2014\u201cBlack-winged bird, \/ you\u2019ve become \/ lyrics layering air\u201d\u2014until the repetition used throughout becomes incantatory. Every page is rich with Harvey\u2019s rapturous music, in which \u201ceven disasters \/\/ wear white & turn \/ to honey.\u201d<\/p>\n

“Ocean Song,” from Hemming the Water<\/em>:<\/p>\n

Who dreamt of drowning in the blue robes? (Not stars blanketing beaches, not striped fish lapping water, flapping their golden tongues.) One of them searched the numbers & wrote a Zodiac suite. She found a monk in Arizona, her desert water, her black cactus, her handsome faith. She found Mart\u00edn de Porres too. Children starved as the ocean sifted its salt. Who knows what to pray for? Who’s guilty of beginner’s mind? What life is this where even the strange feels cyclical: the roar of waves in a seashell, stingrays, pregnant corpses washed ashore.<\/div>\n

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