DeLana R.A. Dameron Books in Order

DéLana R. A. Dameron’s poems question an all-powerful God whose reach includes both creation and destruction. Personal and collective histories, racism, natural disasters, and family struggles become occasions for anger, grief, celebration, and a search for consolation.

These poems trace a Southern-born speaker’s emotional and spiritual journey through Harlem. Encounters with the city explore love, loss, family, and death while testing the hope that moving north might offer belonging and a promised new home.

Growing up in a working-class Black neighborhood of Columbia, South Carolina, Mika Tabor listens to her family’s stories and witnesses their struggles. Their experiences shape her understanding of belonging, visibility, and the complicated bonds between generations.

Dwayne Bolton has hidden his family’s horse-training heritage from his daughter Nikki after a devastating tragedy. When their South Carolina land is threatened, he must confront that history so the young horsewoman can claim her own future.