Ghost Woman: A Rising

"In Ghost Woman, Crystal Simone Smith explores the long and deep connections to nature, personhood, relationships, and trauma through haikus and haibuns. Separated into five sections, the book emphasizes the way social bonds and landscapes are reflected in and through the environment. Connecting the art of haiku to eco-poetics, Smith brings her experience into conversation with the imagery of five elements, Wind (Fu), Earth (Chi), Water (Sui), Fire (Ka), and Void (Ku), and tells a personal tale of life as an author, growing up in the American South, and carrying your history with you. Meeting personal narrative, memoir, and nature, the poems in this collection invite the reader to be with nature and themselves more intentionally"-- Provided by publisher.