Hemming the Water

Channeling the collection?s muse, jazz composer and pianist Mary Lou Williams, Hemming the Water speaks to the futility of trying to mend or straighten a life that is constantly changing. Here the spiritual and the secular comingle in a ?Fierce fragmentation, lonely tune.? Harvey inhabits, challenges, and explores the many facets of the female self?as daughter, mother, sister, wife, and artist. Every page is rich with Harvey?s rapturous music.