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Before there was a story, there was a sound.
The Root Verse traces seven generations across Samaná, Dominican Republic, through poetry shaped by migration, language, memory, identity, and the things history does not always preserve whole.
Beginning with the 1824 migration of free African Americans to Hispaniola and moving across two centuries, each poem imagines a voice from a different generation. Names survive. Languages change. Songs lose words. Records disappear. Families remember differently. What remains is carried forward in fragments.
These poems do not attempt to turn every silence into an answer. Instead, they explore what it means to inherit questions alongside names, stories, photographs, songs, and places, and to discover that uncertainty does not make the past meaningless.
From Elijah Green’s arrival in 1824 to a thirteen-year-old Elijah Green II writing beside the water in 2038, The Root Verse becomes a meditation on belonging, preservation, and what one generation can leave for the next.
The characters and relationships are imagined. The history that inspired them is real.
A poetic companion to Samaná: Seven Generations, forthcoming from Livingston Press, and Story Letters from Samaná, The Root Verse stands at the lyrical heart of the Samaná story.
A name can survive.
A song can change.
A story can arrive in pieces
and still be worth carrying.
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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. Before there was a story, there was a sound.The Root Verse traces seven generations of memory, migration, and resilience across the shores of Samana, Dominican Republic. Through lyrical verse and historical reflection, Davey Green transforms ancestral silence into song, shaping a poetic genealogy of belonging, loss, and legacy.Each poem becomes a voice speaking across time, revealing what it means to inherit both the ache and the beauty of survival. What emerges is a chorus of descendants stitched together by rhythm, ritual, and the emotional frequencies that outlive any single life.Built with Narrative Architecture(TM), this collection uses pulse, memory carriers, and load-bearing emotion to hold the weight of an entire lineage. The poems function as vessels - each one storing a fragment of cultural memory that moves through generations, changing shape but never losing its center. The emotional design allows the work to stand on its own while connecting seamlessly to the larger Samana narrative ecosystem.For readers of Homegoing, Citizen, and The Prophets, this collection honors the ones who planted, the ones who stayed, and the ones still remembering.A companion to the forthcoming novel Samana Seven Generations (Livingston Press) and to Story Letters from Samana, this book sits at the poetic heart of the series - the root from which the story grows This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. Seller Inventory # 9798270495220
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