Barefoot Poetess by Paris Rosemont. The follow up collection to her highly acclaimed debut Banana Girl is about journeys: through love, disenchantment, and change. With her second poetry collection, Barefoot Poetess takes readers on an intimate journey through Rosemont’s metamorphosis – from the disillusionment of fractured relationships, complexities of culture and identity, the ridiculousness of the current zeitgeist, through to – at the very heart of things, love. This collection ripples with an undercurrent of violence. Yet there is also a softness to it—a sense of hope amidst the jagged edges. “Besides reclaiming the word ‘Poetess’ as an act of rebellion, Paris Rosemont has also reclaimed a woman’s fierce allegiance to her body, sexuality, her selfhood. Throughout this book she reclaims the language of love and her love of language,”- Dorianne Laux, Finalist: 2020 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry