To give and receive fearlessly takes practice and trust.
In her debut poetry collection, Yvette Doucette’s work speaks to reckoning and renewal, balance and specificity. This work invites conversation and asks questions. From nature’s primary constituents of reality, the ancestors lift the living to intimacy and myth, challenging us—whether revealed or transmuted—in moments of everyday life.
With poems about nature and our other-than-human kin, This is How I Connect to You examines familial memory—as mother and sister, as ancestors—to know what can truly be known. While her words speak of sorrow, measuring out the days, they don’t despair. Even as they shiver with loss and careen towards surrender, they offer up hope, green and wriggling, and yes—even love, too.
