{"product_id":"the-rooted-and-recurrent","title":"The Rooted and Recurrent","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;\"\u003eThe Rooted and Recurrent\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eBy \u003cspan style=\"font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;\"\u003eGina Ferrara\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: rgb(255, 42, 0);\"\u003eAvailable September 29, 2026\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch4\u003e\n\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e \u003cstrong\u003eAbout the Book\u003c\/strong\u003e\n\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: normal;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;\"\u003eSet in a precarious landscape—lush, tropical but geographically vulnerable to threats of natural disaster—\u003ci\u003eThe Rooted and Recurrent\u003c\/i\u003e reflectively and often lyrically explores the self, family history, and existing and encroaching challenges where the personal and political are fused together.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: normal;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;\"\u003eWritten during a formidable time when the country experienced political upheaval, a horrific pandemic, and individual isolation, the poems are rooted in an acute sense of place, complete with live oaks, sweet olive, and satsumas that not only tell us where and when, but more importantly forge an identity by recounting memories that are powerful and generative. The poems in the collection have recurrent themes of family, loss, and change, both personal and environmental. Ultimately, they aim to make personal connections and invite the reader to become emotionally tethered.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch4\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: normal; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;\"\u003eGina Ferrara lives in New Orleans. \u003ci\u003eThe Rooted and Recurrent\u003c\/i\u003e is her sixth poetry collection. Her work has appeared in numerous anthologies and journals, including \u003ci\u003eThe Southern Review\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Poetry Ireland Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e In 2025, she was appointed poet laureate of Louisiana.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch4\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePraise for \u003cem\u003eThe Rooted and Recurrent\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: normal; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;\"\u003e“In \u003ci\u003eThe Rooted and Recurrent \u003c\/i\u003eGina Ferrara brings a profound sensitivity to her native New Orleans landscape. . . . To see like Ferrara is to feel multiple dimensions at once. . . . Her poems remind us ‘how all our stories were told’ in a narrative built image by image.”\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: normal; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" align=\"right\" style=\"margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: right; line-height: normal; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;\"\u003e–Rodger Kamenetz, author of \u003ci\u003eYonder\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Missing Jew: Poems 1976–2022\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: normal; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: normal; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e“Gina Ferrara’s stunning new collection plants our feet in sugarcane fields, yellow-tiled kitchens, and the pink houses of memory where ‘unforgettable orchids bloom.’. . .These poems, and this poet, are truly ‘anchored to land and line’ in the most necessary of ways, and I cannot recommend them strongly enough.”\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: normal; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" align=\"right\" style=\"margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: right; line-height: normal; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;\"\u003e–Jack B. Bedell, author of \u003ci\u003eGhost Forest\u003c\/i\u003e, poet laureate of Louisiana, 2017–19\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: normal; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: normal; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;\"\u003e“With intense intimacy, Gina Ferrara’s poems vividly evoke a life in New Orleans, which is to say, a life where mystery is ordinary as a street name. Wherever you live, let these poems bring you home.”\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" align=\"right\" style=\"margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: right; line-height: normal; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" align=\"right\" style=\"margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: right; line-height: normal; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;\"\u003e–Brad Richard, author of \u003ci\u003eTurned Earth\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e© 2026 University of Louisiana at Lafayette Press\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e978-1-959569-43-5 \u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e|\u003c\/span\u003e Paperback \u003cspan\u003e| \u003c\/span\u003e70 pp. \u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e| 6\" x 9\" | September 29, 2026\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"UL Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42864079798352,"sku":null,"price":18.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0069\/8132\/0777\/files\/RootedandRecurrentcoverforweb.jpg?v=1787587808","url":"https:\/\/ulpress.org\/products\/the-rooted-and-recurrent","provider":"UL Press","version":"1.0","type":"link"}