Gulfwater: some aftermaths
“What can I say about Gulfwater? That it digs at what it means to be a family? That family is as turbulent as the swirl of a Texas hurricane? That fear and danger will find you when you least expect? In this chapbook, Liv Kane sifts through family memories and family members and family home, uncovering questions that haunt and hover. At the same time she discovers more and more of herself, and her relationship to the natural world that forever moves around her. Kane seeks to not only tell a story, but to understand the depths of it.”
— IRA SUKRUNGRUANG, author of In Thailand, it is Night
“Kane’s words make my eyes argue whether to hurriedly float to the next phrase, or linger right where I’m at, savoring her tenderness with language and imagery. Her words are painfully aware that everyday is not a dream, yet they are hopeful and full of vigor. I find her context and perspective refreshing and sobering as she evokes such vivid parallels. I combine my prayers with her reverence for family and friends confronting illness and adversity, and memories that billow up like a storm. As you read, may time evaporate. May her reflections shower down on you as salted Gulf rain later, when you least expect it.”
— ANDREA “VOCAB” SANDERSON, San Antonio Poet Laureate 2020-2023