Wade in the Water: Poems Bookseller Recommended Bosso and his crew of

Bosso and his crew of crooked carnies arrive to steal anything and everything they can get their sticky fingers on

and being kind to one another—from actor and activist Grace Byers and talented newcomer Keturah A

Illuminating text paired with irresistible illustrations bring to life both iconic and lesser-known female figures of Black history such as abolitionist Sojourner Truth

the exquisite reinvention of Greek myth in the sonnets of Mother Love

Trey is Damon's childhood best friend with whom he built a successful drug business

Wade in the Water: Poems Bookseller Recommended Bosso and his crew ofIn Wade in the Water, Tracy K. Smith boldly ties America's contemporary moment both to our nation's fraught founding history and to a sense of the spirit, the everlasting. These are poems of sliding scale: some capture a flicker of song or memory; some collage an array of documents and voices; and some push past the known world into the haunted, the holy. Smith's signature voice inquisitive, lyrical, and wry turns over what it means to be a citizen, a