What The River Taught The Moon: Poems by a Father and Daughter — She Starts the Story, He Finishes It - Couverture souple

Savannah, Khalessi; Martel, River

Couverture souple

ISBN 13 : 9798993030203

Editeur : Kaja Publishing, 2026

Synopsis

Eleven-year-old Khalessi Savannah has a notebook that's always running out of pages and a father who finishes every poem she starts. It's what they've always done: she asks the question, he answers it, and What The River Taught The Moon is the first time they wrote it down.

Structured as paired poems, hers on one page, his answering on the facing page, this collection moves through six parts: the invisible work of love (Downstream), the questions only a child can ask (Learning to Ask), what grows in the places no one is watching (Learning to Trust the Dark), the courage to be fully seen (Learning to Be Seen), the love that survives distance (What Can't Be Touched), and the inheritance every child carries without knowing it (Who You Come From).

Using the moon, the river, the seed underground, the lotus in the mud, the eagle that doesn't explain its altitude, and the ant that never got the memo about impossible, father and daughter build a conversation about presence, distance, resilience, and the kind of love that keeps moving even when it can't be seen.

This is a book for the parent who never knew how to say the hard thing. For the child still waiting to hear it. For anyone who has loved someone across distance and needed proof that the love still arrived.

You don't have to be eleven. You don't have to be a father or a daughter. You just have to be the person you are, who has felt something they couldn't name yet, and needed someone to start the sentence they'd been trying to finish their whole life.

She started it. He finished it. Now it's yours to continue.

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Khalessi Savannah, 11, writes the questions. Her father, River Martel, writes the answers. What The River Taught The Moon is their debut collection - poems passed back and forth across distance, proving that love, once written down, keeps traveling long after the page ends.

River Martel is a father of six and the voice on the other side of every poem his daughter Khalessi starts. For most of Khalessi's life, love has had to travel - through phone calls, through distance, through the space between one visit and the next - and River has spent that time learning how to make sure she felt it anyway. He named her Khalessi Savannah after his mother, who was from Savannah, Georgia, so that a piece of her would always have somewhere to live. What The River Taught The Moon began the way most of his best work with Khalessi has begun: with her question, and him sitting with it until he understood what it needed from him. He writes the way he shows up - steady, unhurried, and completely honest - because his daughter, more than anyone, has always made it impossible for him to be anything else. This is his first book.

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Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Kaja Publishing
• Date d'édition: 2026
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 13: 9798993030203
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 122
• Éditeur: Cunningham Anton
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