A poetic retelling of Noah's Ark set in the near future, Ceive is a
novella in verse that recounts a post-apocalyptic journey aboard a
container ship. This contemporary flood narrative unfolds through
poems following the perspective of a woman named Val, who is found
in the wreckage of her flooding home by a former UPS delivery man.
As environmental and political catastrophes force them to flee the
Eastern Seaboard, Val and her rescuer take refuge alongside a group
of pilgrims seeking refuge from the catastrophic collapse of a
civilization destroyed by gun violence, climate crisis, and social
unrest. The ship of cargo and refugees is run by the captain Nolan
and his wife Nadia, who set sail for Greenland, now warmed to a
temperate climate. The couple place Val in charge of caring for a
neurodivergent young boy who holds knowledge of analog navigation.
Mourning her missing daughter, Val experiences both isolation and a
wellspring of compassion in survival, an indefatigable need to
connect. She and the other pilgrims weather illness and peril,
boredom and conflict, deprivation and despair as they set sail
across stormy, unfamiliar waters. Drawing from the Anglo-Saxon poem
The Seafarer, the Bible, and the Latin root word in receive, Ceive
is a vision of eco-cataclysm and survival-inviting meditations on
biodiversity, illness, social law, sustenance, scripture,
menopause, sensory perception, human bonds, caregiving, and loss,
all the while extending a call for renewal and hope.
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