Eat Salt | Gaze at the Ocean by Junie Désil (Grades 10+)

Haitian-Canadian poet Junie Désil grew up with immigrant parents in Montreal, and now lives in British Columbia. Her work in this book explores the experience of blackness as it relates to sovereignty, using the metaphor of the Haitian zombie. The violence of the ocean crossing and enslavement are countered by a "cure", implied in the collection's title, and the powerful language of Désil's poetry itself.