Florida Water is a collection of poems that, like the cleansing waters of spiritual baths, rinse, reflect, and reveal the raw truths that lie within us.
In this vulnerable meditation, aja monet reflects on her migration to South Florida in search of love, connection, and belonging, unearthing the delicate balance between the poet, the lover, and the community organizer. These poems lay bare the tender dance of relationships, entwining the personal with the political, as they confront the State's fractured history of racial prejudice, marooned peoples, and the unruly forces of nature.
In Florida Water, each poem is an artifact—an offering from her time spent wading through the rising tides of climate change, heartbreak, and systemic violence. With each line, monet immerses us deeper into the water, where the currents of memory, struggle, and survival pull us toward both despair and hope.
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“Thank you, Aja Monet.”
—Ava Duvernay
“Interesting, powerful, at times challenging poetry.”
—Roxane Gay
“A triumphant collection."
—O Magazine
“Stunning and evocative... fierce and revolutionary.”
—Publishers Weekly Starred Review
“A bold, intimate and powerful collection of poems.”
—Ms. Magazine
“Aja Monet’s writing blazes in these breathtakingly fierce poems.”
—LitHub
“Aja Monet’s poetry, like her activism, is one of resistance and reimagining. It resists simplicity, instead opening up new vistas for the reader and new points of entry into perspectives that are largely ignored; she gives voices to the marginalized and forgotten and imagines worlds in which those voices can ring out.”
—The Los Angeles Review
Other books by Aja Monet
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My Mother Was a Freedom Fighter
by Aja Monet