Sea In My Bones / Mar En Los Huesos Padrika Tarrant

Sea In My Bones / Mar En Los Huesos Padrika TarrantThe fourth collection of poetry in Juana Goergens rich trajectory, Mar en los huesos [Sea in my Bones] bears witness to a shared collective experience of trauma. It interweaves indigenous and African belief systems, languages, and memories to recollect the Caribbeans ancestral past and its imagination of the future. As is true of all memory work, Sea in my Bones simultaneously speaks to the broken present: its cry against injustice rests on the hope

one of the few

and I was having to leave to study

it displays the poet’s continuing fascination with the tenuous relationship between the quotidian and the otherworldly

Adam Strickson

Rachid Boudjedra: Excerpts from two novels Turmoil and The Stubborn Snail

and the surreally imaginative – meeting such famous characters as the Prince of Wales or Joe Stalin upstairs on a no

providing a thoughtful take on what it means to be alive and how suffering can control and overwhelm you

and a sense of generations passing

answers are few and questions multiply

Safe Metamorphosis is the debut poetry collection from alternative hip-hop spoken word artist and storyteller Otis Mensah

And the healing begins

(the south window at the Bowery Poetry Club)