"Echoes Carry by Serena Agusto-Cox traces the intimacies of family, migration, and memory with lyrical precision. Through vivid domestic imagery - kneading bread, tending gardens, playing the piano - the poet transforms everyday gestures into acts of inheritance and resilience. Poems such as "America is," "Pergola," and "Finnish Pulla" braid ancestral histories with present moments, revealing how love and labor persist across generations. Later pieces on pandemic life extend the collection's reach into modern isolation. Throughout, the poet's voice is tender and assured, turning remembrance into renewal. Echoes Carry is a resonant testament to how memory and care sustain us."

—Jona Colson, co-president of Washington Writers' Publishing House

and author of Said Through Glass

"Serena Agusto-Cox's poetry collection, Echoes Carry, invites us into a house full of memories, giving us a new way to live the present and the future. She recalls America in three devastatingly beautiful poems: an immigrant father, ocean-battered hands, ancestors from the Azores, a baking widower, a mother working in a nursing home laundry. She recalls her Vovó, a Portuguese grandmother, in poems that teach us to be human. We find scrapbooks, friendship bracelets, Covid, a child swimming, all lessons to build a future with the joys and sorrows of the past. Serena Agusto-Cox is a brilliant poet. Listen to these poems. They will house us and help us."

—Joseph Ross, author of Raising King and Crushed & Crowned