Ocean Mother - Paperback

by Arielle Taitano Lowe (Author)

Ocean Mother tells the story of a young woman's decision to heal herself, her family, and her home. The poet gives voice to her experience as a CHamoru girl raised in the Pacific Island of Guåhan (Guam), located in Micronesia. Weaving together narratives of family, environment, Indigenous identity, decolonial love, and her CHamoru culture, the poet goes on a journey inward and overseas. She explores the relationships between culture and identity, colonialism and inherited trauma, sense of place and generational healing.

Author Biography

Arielle Taitano Lowe is a Chamorrita poet, born and raised in Guam. She grew up swimming with schools of palaksi off the shores of luminao reef in Apapa, Piti. Her work has been featured in the Academy of American Poets Poem-a-Day series, Under a Warm Green Linden, Indigenous Pacific Islander Eco-Literatures, and Indigenous Literatures from Micronesia. She now resides in O'ahu, Hawai'i, where she studies intergenerational healing.