Harriet Tubman, Force of Nature by Caroline Brewer PN Review The type of poetry book

The type of poetry book that invites you in and wants to be kept close to the chest

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Shifting between forms both physical and elemental

reminding us that it is not death we have to understand but life

queer joy and the power to unapologetically be yourself and fully embrace who you are

Harriet Tubman, Force of Nature by Caroline Brewer PN Review The type of poetry bookWhen Harriet Tubman was born enslaved in Maryland, USA, in 1822, nobody knew this tiny Black child would be so rooted in the natural world. Nobody knew she would find her way by the stars or move through the woods as silently as an owl or hear God speaking to her in trances. Nobody knew that she would use her oneness with the environment and spirit to escape the brutality that was slavery, rescue hundreds of others from the same fate, and embrace the