# Surviving Home - Paperback

by **Katerina Canyon** (Author)

Katerina Canyon's poems offer intimate accounts of home as the locus of danger - and homeland as a state of oppression. They are at once urgent and mysterious, full of ocean depths and surging currents. Far from nostalgia, home inspires in this poet a vigilance, keeping watch on herself and others. Her very language is charged with the alert intelligence that offers a means of survival, and metaphors that transform pain into poetry.

  
\-Devin Johnston, author of __Mosses and Lichens__

  
Katerina Canyon's poems dive into history unafraid to explore the complexity of home and family and acknowledge: __the sea is filled with bones.__ This powerful, engaging collection where we see __the billowing skirt of sunset__ asks again and again: How do get past our pasts? Smart, poignant, compassionate, Canyon's poems remind us that strength happens despite one's childhood and one's country; they exclaim, __We can choose whether we are stuck / In darkness or in light.__

  
_\-_Kelli Russell Agodon, author of __Dialogues with Rising Tides__

  
In lush language and startling images, Katerina Canyon unveils a story __i__n blood and bone__ of a speaker who survives domestic cycles of addiction and abuse, terrors __handed down from the plantation__ through generations of her kin . . . Like the Phoenix, the speaker dares to draw near destruction to name our violent histories in order to claim a survivor's eternal understanding of how to love, how to mother, and how to teach the world that __We cannot be bound. We are free. We are infinite.__

  
\-Katy Didden, author of __The Glacier's Wake__

**Number of Pages:** 108

**Dimensions:** 0.26 x 9 x 6 IN

**Publication Date:** October 28, 2021

## Details

- **Price:** 25.65 USD
- **Vendor:** Books by splitShops
- **Type:** Books
- **Tags:** Books by splitShops, Shopify Collective

## Variants

| Variant | Price | Available |
|---------|-------|-----------|
| Default Title | 25.65 USD | In stock |

## Images

- Surviving Home - Paperback

---

> Source: [Smart supply deals](https://smartsupplydeals.com/products/surviving-home-paperback)
> Updated: 2026-07-23