Rivers in Your Skin, Sirens in Your Hair: Poems social studies “is a raw fearless innocent

“is a raw fearless innocent gay Black kid’s journey coming out into life at an incredible pre-AIDS period

Gita must succeed or risk losing everyone she’s ever loved

where the power of the earth is wielded as a weapon

A decade after necromancy became licensed and legalized

and soon discover the mortal world is not the only one on the brink of war

Rivers in Your Skin, Sirens in Your Hair: Poems social studies “is a raw fearless innocentBy: Marisca Pichetta When I left home I took only what I could carry What will you bring with you down the path, through the hills and into the woods? Fragments, stories, living things? Echoes of the past, promises for the future? In fifty new and collected poems, Marisca Pichette celebrates myth, folklore, and memory. Her poems traverse landscapes both real and imagined, taking inherited tales and retelling them through a queer lens. From dusk into