YOU'RE THE SEVENTH GENERATION. TAKE GOOD CARE OF HER. SHE'S THE ONLY MOTHER WE ALL HAVE.
 
In the language of the Tsalagi Nation, the phrase Elohi Unitsi means "Mother Earth". Oakland, CA performance poet Dee Allen shows respect for our planet in his fifth poetry collection. The innate beauty, the consistent harm from humans and occasional travels to nature unfurl inside its printed pages. Elohi Unitsi is a look at the environment most people take for granted--the elements, forests, deserts, canyons, plants, food, animals and the indigenous people of the land--from the eyes of an inner-city Black man.
 
Author: Dee Allen. 
African-Italian performance poet based in Oakland, California. Active on creative writing & Spoken Word since the early 1990s. Author of 4 books: Boneyard, Unwritten Law, Stormwater, Skeletal Black [ all from POOR Press ] and 24 anthology appearances, including Poets 11: 2014, Feather Floating On The Water, Rise, Your Golden Sun Still Shines, What Is Love, The City Is Already Speaking, The Land Lives Forever, Extreme and Civil Liberties United.