Spells For Living Oracle

"Gathering the Waters is a potent book of poetry that can intoxicate your senses. Keisha wields her pen like a Samurai swordsman. Her poetry deals with the personal us, the intimate us, and the history of us. Keisha’s poetry takes you on a wonderfully exciting journey through the culture and beauty of being Black, with the promise of tomorrow."

—Abiodun Oyewole, The Last Poets

“Anderson twists to writhe ivory from bone.”

—Tyehimba Jess, author of Olio and winner of the Pulitzer Prize

"A Spell for Living is both indictment and exhortation, mourning and celebration, illuminating the routes to living and loving handed down by the ancestral powers. Keisha-Gaye Anderson offers us transcendental and luminous poetry in cadences as compelling as heartbeats. A book to keep and read over and over again."

—Olive Senior, author of Gardening in the Tropics and Jamaica Poet Laureate