Ghost Woman: A Rising
Oct 2026 · Duke University Press
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In Ghost Woman, Crystal Simone Smith explores the long and deep connections between nature, personhood, ancestry, and trauma through haiku and haibun. Separated into five sections, the poems emphasize the way social bonds and landscapes are reflected in and through the environment. Smith brings her experiences with race, motherhood, and poetry into conversation with the five elements, Wind (fu), Earth (chi), Water (sui), Fire (ka), and Void (ku) to take readers through an introspective haiku journey, an exploration of the nature of the self as well as the nature of the broader world. Balancing shattering grief with ordinary moments of love and trauma with survival, Ghost Woman weaves a narrative verse of single motherhood, bearing witness, and carrying your history with you. The poems in Ghost Woman invite readers to be with nature and themselves more intentionally.
In Ghost Woman, Crystal Simone Smith explores the long and deep connections between nature, personhood, ancestry, and trauma through haiku and haibun. Separated into five sections, the poems emphasize the way social bonds and landscapes are reflected in and through the environment. Smith brings h...
About the author
Crystal Simone Smith is Instructor of the Thompson Writing Program at Duke University. She is the author of Runagate: Songs of the Freedom Bound, also published by Duke University Press, and Dark Testament: Blackout Poems.
Crystal Simone Smith is Instructor of the Thompson Writing Program at Duke University. She is the author of Runagate: Songs of the Freedom Bound, also published by Duke University Press, and Dark Testament: Blackout Poems.
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