Bold and provocative, Deluge presents intensely physical poems about faith, illness, and sex. The title refers to the relentless deluge of blood Chatti experienced over two years from uterine tumors.

She was "everyone's counselor," they said, a caring young woman with an “infectious ... experiencing loss, and her faith. In a lighter poem, she describes herself as silly and a good ...

These women have informed Gorman's poems and whose shoulders she stands on. And, Gorman knows this. “I repeat a mantra to myself: 'I am the daughter of Black writers, we are descended from ...