For Want of Water cid_6588 time spent in recovery—from a

time spent in recovery—from a broken leg

and Lauret Savoy—unearthing evidence of the ways Black people’s relationship to the natural world has persevered through colonialism

Is change possible

whose experiences of gender have defied binary categories

social context and exercises to enable readers to connect all parts of their lives: personal

For Want of Water cid_6588 time spent in recovery—from aEl Paso is one of the safest cities in the United States, while across the river, Ciudad Jurez suffers a history of femicides and a horrific drug war. Witnessing this, a Filipinas life unravels as she tries to love an addict, the murders growing just a citybut the breadth of a countryaway. This collection weaves the personal with recent history, the domestic with the tragic, asking how much a body will hold, reaching from the border to the poets own