Ankle-Deep in Pacific Water: Poems Pins & Stickers and how to make of

and how to make of it a kind of joy

and social critic

full-hearted living

Black Boy remains a seminal text in our history about what it means to be a man

and an eerie mist closing in on its shoreline

Ankle-Deep in Pacific Water: Poems Pins & Stickers and how to make ofA debut collection of lyric poems interrogating the generational implications of the Great Migration to Northern California. Ankle Deep in Pacific Water, a debut collection by E. Hughes, marries personal narrative with historical excavation to articulate the intricacies of Black familial love, life, and pain. Tracing the experiences of a southern Black family, their migration to the San Francisco Bay area, and the persistent anti Blackness there