Sea In My Bones / Mar En Los Huesos by Juana Goergen, Silvia ... - 9781739393922

Name: Sea In My Bones / Mar En Los Huesos by Juana Goergen, Silvia ... - 9781739393922
Brand: The 87 Press

The 87 Press

Sea In My Bones / Mar En Los HuesosAuthor(s): Juana Goergen, Silvia Tandeciarz\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: The 87 Press, United Kingdom\nImprint: The 87 Press\nISBN-13: 9781739393922, 978-1739393922\nSynopsis\nThe 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 that through its labor, the Zemies might awaken and the Caribbean peoples origin be remembered. A multilingual tour de force that slips between Spanish, Taino, and Yoruba, Goergens deployment of the poem as trace, as evidence, results in a cacophony of voices that bring together what life has torn apart. At the same time, the col.