Bøker av Glenis Redmond

Join Glenis Redmond, Greenville's first Poet Laureate, on a poetic journey through South Carolina's State Parks with "The Song of Everything". Being diagnosed with cancer and amid COVID, she visits South Carolina's State Parks with her grandson, Julian, as a life-affirming act for both of them. This pocket-sized collection of poems explores the enduring connection between the natural world and our internal landscape. Her poetry invites everyone to rediscover the wonders of the world around us, the stories they have to tell, and the lessons they have to teach us.

In this chapbook Glenis honors Harriet Tubman (conductor of the underground railroad), Harriet E. Wilson (first black woman novelist), Harriet Jacobs (abolitionist), Harriet Powers (quilter), Lizelia Augusta Jenkins Moorer and Simbi (water spirit). "The Three Harriets & Others reimagine the agency and ancestral urgency of Black foremothers. Glenis Redmond raises her/their voices with fierce unflinching and unapologetic poetics. These poems offer an ancient, unshackled breath that allows them to "Spill ink like night clouds that clot what your soul cannot hold."