Deidre CreativeSoul

Border Crossing:

a poetic memoir

 

In her debut collection, Deidre CreativeSoul carries readers back

and forth across the “DC-Maryland line” on the far Northeast edge

of the United States’ capital city, where black families stretch

between working-class neighborhoods on the Washington, DC

side of the border and the sprawling middle-class suburbs of

Prince George’s County, Maryland.

The poet’s own experiences and evolution are related first as

a child coming of age in this landscape, then as an adult returning
home to “give back” to her community, and culminating with

another departure for distant shores, She pauses along the way

to explore the moments when our religious, romantic, social and intellectual roots shape our identities, whether we embrace, reject

or transcend the result.