Messages from Salt Water

<p>Sabrina Ito’s poetry chapbook <em>Messages from Salt Water </em>explores how love betrayal discovery and acceptance drive and define our relationships with others as well as with ourselves. Autobiographical in nature these poems chronicle various stages of Ito’s personal life - from her childhood experiences in Japan to her adult years in Canada and the USA. Displacement racial identity and unresolved relationships feature as predominant themes while water symbolism unifies the collection. Simple yet evocative Ito’s poetic style invokes the natural Japanese landscapes where many of her poems take place. An honest and sincere portrayal of how life-changing moments are often fleeting and indefinable <em>Messages from Salt Water </em>is narrative poetry at its best - accessible stories told through lyrical language that readers will want to revisit and re-experience again and again.</p>