Baobab Roots
Just released - written by Red at Alien Buddha Press
Baobab Roots, the new monoku collection by Katherine E Winnick is now available!!!
Preview selections- alienbuddhapress.wordpress.com/2026/07/27/spotlight-baobab-roots-by-katherine-e-winnick/
Paperback- amazon.com/Baobab-Roots-Katherine-Winnick/dp/B0H6QB1B89/
heatwave alibi wilts
summer evenings excuses stretch
market day lies cross paths
Following My Hennaed Hand (2023), Katherine E Winnick returns to Alien Buddha Press with one of her most unique and compelling collections.
Baobab Roots is a linked sequence of monoku rooted in memoir and reimagined through fable. Through shifting seasons, fractured intimacies, and the quiet clues of everyday life, a story gradually emerges: one husband, two households, and the women left to decipher the roots of deception.
Partly drawn from lived experience and partly transformed through poetic imagination, Winnick crafts a highly original and provocative investigation. Harnessing the tools of Japanese inspired short form poetry, she thoughtfully processes, analyzes, and comments upon the idea of plural marriage, exploring how secrets take hold and branch outward.
Winnick has deftly accomplished a courageous and bold work. Memorable, subtle, and tremendously impactful, Baobab Roots examines desire, aspiration, extravagance, and the striving to accommodate unlimited growth in finite and fixed systems.