Bodies of Water

By Paulo Ramos

"Paulo Ramos has carefully and beautifully woven this book of poetry. Bodies of Water is a gift-a deeply thoughtful and reflective glimpse into the politics of race, gender, sexuality, ancestry, land, and time in our lives in the Americas. Each word echoes in the space-time of our Black experience." -Christen A. Smith, Yale University ​ "Paulo Ramos, another Black boy who is a sorcerer, makes his body into water to wash away all the pain of our history." -Osmundo Pinho, University of the Rec ncavo of Bahia, Brazil ​​​​ Bodies of Water is a breath taken underwater. Bodies of Water is memory in motion, a current carrying the stories of Black women-mothers. It is the description of the poetic pluralities of Black women in their intellectualities as they experience the world, a world born from the relationships and socialities that emerge from these waters. The book Bodies of Water reveals itself through the wisdom of the mother, grandmother, aunt, and neighborhood women (mother-neighbors) of the author, who shared mothering and waters among themselves. It is these women and these waters that make us s(w)im-alk in the Black feeling-doing, rooted in an ancestry that flows from their wombs and hearts.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1962365131
• ISBN13: 9781962365130
• Release Date: January 2026
• Publisher: Np:
• Length: 134 Pages
• Weight: 0.36 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.5" x 8.5"