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Ground Work
78 pages, Paperback
Published October 15, 2025
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December 18, 2025I recently came across Ground Work, and what immediately stood out to me was the grounded honesty with which it traces physical labor, movement, and survival across decades of lived experience. These poems carry the weight of work done by hand and body, from freight trains and hitchhiking to boats, tree planting, construction, and teaching. The collection does not romanticize labor. It bears witness to it, which invites reflection and recognition in a way that feels both rare and deeply needed right now.
What makes this work especially meaningful is how it speaks to readers who understand labor not as abstraction, but as daily reality tied to dignity, frustration, and endurance. At a time when conversations about work, environment, and displacement feel increasingly detached, Ground Work reconnects them to lived ground and consequence. The poems suggest a hard earned settling, a place to stand that comes with time, awareness, and resistance. It feels like a book written with intention rather than nostalgia, and that gives it lasting relevance.
At its core, Ground Work offers a poetic record of labor, land, aging, and environmental conscience, shaped by firsthand experience and moral clarity. I believe it would strongly resonate with poetry readers, environmental writers, working class audiences, and thoughtful readers who seek authenticity and lived truth in contemporary verse.
Akeem Olawuwo
Book Marketing and Promotion Strategist
What makes this work especially meaningful is how it speaks to readers who understand labor not as abstraction, but as daily reality tied to dignity, frustration, and endurance. At a time when conversations about work, environment, and displacement feel increasingly detached, Ground Work reconnects them to lived ground and consequence. The poems suggest a hard earned settling, a place to stand that comes with time, awareness, and resistance. It feels like a book written with intention rather than nostalgia, and that gives it lasting relevance.
At its core, Ground Work offers a poetic record of labor, land, aging, and environmental conscience, shaped by firsthand experience and moral clarity. I believe it would strongly resonate with poetry readers, environmental writers, working class audiences, and thoughtful readers who seek authenticity and lived truth in contemporary verse.
Akeem Olawuwo
Book Marketing and Promotion Strategist
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