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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.
Price: $25.00
Publisher: University of Guam Press
Imprint: University of Guam Press
Publication Date:
02 March 2024
ISBN: 9781935198819
Format: eBook
BISACs:
POETRY / American / Asian American
With poems like shards of sea glass, Lowe is searching for a home, a mother, a song. A debut full of sea, sky, and promise.
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.