Sunday 3rd February 2013  3:00 PM

Please join us on Sunday, February 3, 2013 from 3-5pm for the Book Launch of Angelique's Nixon's "Saltwater Healing" that will be available in a limited edition of copies published by Poinciana Paper Press. Feel free to pass the invitation along!

How do we tell the stories that are too painful to recall? In what language can we bring these hidden realities, often loaded with shame, to light and let the retelling hold witness to and ultimately heal our stories?

In ?Saltwater Healing,? the latest book being launched next month by local independent fine press, Poinciana Paper Press, Bahamian poet Angelique V. Nixon finds the path to healing and empowerment lies in both language and image.

In eighteen snapshots, she collages photographs, drawings, and actual pieces from the Bahamian landscape?silk cotton tree cotton, woman?s tongue pods, sand and shells, dried leaves and seeds?and uses them alongside handwritten poetry to explore and understand difficult stories through the lens of the natural world.

Along with a selection of her own poems, the book finds beauty and strength in even the darkest of places?like letting the ocean?s tide wash your sorrow out to sea, ?Saltwater Healing? moves the reader through to a refreshing and more inspired place.

?Through my collection, I hope readers feel inspired to tell their own stories in whatever ways that make sense to them. And I hope to encourage readers to share and speak their truth,? she says. ?I am working in the tradition of Black women writers who insist upon our need to create our own stories out of what we know and what we don't know -- because so much of our histories/herstories are unknown.?

Inspired by Audre Lorde?s "Zami", Angelique calls the work a ?myth memoir? for its seamless combination of stories, experiences, memories, dreams and mystical elements in the narrative of poetry in the artwork, ultimately working to defy literary boundaries and create new ways of telling stories.....


Meet the artist, get your copy signed, listen to readings and enjoy drinks, treats and good company!

Doongalik Studios Art Gallery

#20 Village Road

Nassau,Bahamas

Tel: 394-1886