{"product_id":"leap-grow-feathers-paperback","title":"Leap \u0026 Grow Feathers - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eYona Harvey\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBoth an instruction and a divination, \u003ci\u003eLeap \u0026amp; Grow Feathers \u003c\/i\u003eis an extraordinary transmission. In her third full-length collection, Yona Harvey listens -- to her predecessors, her instincts, and her environment -- gleaning sense from the static fraying our nerves, knowing the personal and the historical travel along the same frequency. Responding to the physical disruption and emotional disassociation of of the COVID-19 pandemic, the poet argues that the societal insistence on returning to \"business as usual\" reflects an institutional, academic, and political ineptitude to provide either physiological healing or social repair, a structural denial that erodes our humanity. As authoritarianism and ecological devastation progressively encroach on our lives, these poems prioritize hoodoo, spirit, intuition, and ancestral conversations in their readings, invoking the carekeeping and persistence of Harriet Tubman, Nikki Giovanni, and the countless forbears, unnamed and named, who traveled the Middle Passage and the Kalunga Crossing. This book channels the power and promise of that legacy as well as the full emotional range of sisterhood, the heartache and borrowed strength and shared laughter. Its humor, whitespace, sparseness, and longform narratives elicit reader participation and, in turn, enduring consideration. \"This float. This bob. This drown. This rock. \/\/ (This Rock. This Rock.) \/\/ This Great Goddamn.\" What do we find in this vastness, the simultaneity of the ever expanding time that lies ahead and full presence of history consolidating here now? An invitation to join Harvey in her vow: \"May I never pretend, \/ May eye be I.\" This collection\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eunveils our vision so we can see it all, not only yesterday's \"Nina Simone lyric \/ Spun out over a newborn Sunday\" in this very moment but also the music unfurling over each incipient morning of the future world we might build together. \u003ci\u003eLeap \u0026amp; Grow Feathers \u003c\/i\u003edescribes and directs: everything we need to survive, to shelter one another, and to protect the Earth lives already in our bodies, our lineages, and our lore. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eYona Harvey is the author of \u003ci\u003eYou Don't Have to Go to Mars for Love\u003c\/i\u003e, winner of \u003ci\u003eThe Believer\u003c\/i\u003e Book Award in Poetry, and \u003ci\u003eHemming the Water\u003c\/i\u003e, winner of the Kate Tufts Discovery Award and finalist for the Hurston\/Wright Award. She's the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Japan Creative Artists Fellowship, the Heinz Foundation's Carol Brown Award, and the inaugural Lucille Clifton Legacy Award from Saint Mary's College of Maryland. Her website is yonaharvey.com.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 136\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.4 x 9 x 5.8 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e September 15, 2026\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56436628422961,"sku":"9781961897960","price":19.39,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1004\/9532\/7537\/files\/aN52_73ni9781961897960.webp?v=1790175160","url":"https:\/\/mitchellofficial.com\/products\/leap-grow-feathers-paperback","provider":"MITCHELL","version":"1.0","type":"link"}