RETRIBUTION BINARY - Softcover

Baumann, Ruth

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1625579691 ISBN 13: 9781625579690

Verlag: BLACK LAWRENCE PR, 2017

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Return Against the Flow by Susana Praver-Pé rez is a memoir-in-verse that travels back and forth between Puerto Rico and its diaspora, much like the island’ s pattern of circular migration over the years. Reflecting her personal journey across geographies and languages, Susana’ s poems move between English and Spanish, and capture the tempo of ambient sounds, such as drumbeats of bomba, or a black-plumed chango chirping at dawn. She unflinchingly explores the daily struggles Puerto Rico faces, while exuberantly celebrating the island’ s culture, its peoples, and the concept of “ return” . This is a voyage via words the reader will remember long after turning the last page. Winner of the Fall 2015 Black River Chapbook Competition
A long poem in two parts, Retribution Binary is an unearthing of trauma and its many fractures. Baumann explores the psychological and spiritual mayhem of the loss of body ownership, how one both takes that back and can never take it back: “ Hands laid on the body lay still in the body. Ghost leeches parasites of rotten wanting.” Retribution Binary‘ s splinters dig deep, burrowing also into the psyche of the perpetrator. The text at once humanizes and exposes the criminal greed and apathy in him: “ If the body is a crime Hell / His lips solemn His head whole / Her age is an appetite.”

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Ruth Baumann holds an MFA from the University of Memphis and a PhD from Florida State University. She is the author of Parse (2018, Black Lawrence Press) and Thornwork (2020, Black Lawrence Press). Susana Praver-Pé rez is a bilingual poet and visual artist. A former Physician Assistant and Associate Medical Director at La Clinica de la Raza in Oakland, California, Susana left medicine in 2021 after four decades of community service, to pursue her passion for poetry on a full-time basis. Her work has appeared in The Acentos Review, About Place Journal, Poets Reading the News, as well as many other journals and anthologies. Hurricanes, Love Affairs, and Other Disasters, Susana’ s first full-length collection of poetry, received the PEN Oakland Josephine Miles Award for Excellence in Literature.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: BLACK LAWRENCE PR
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2017
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1625579691
• ISBN 13: 9781625579690
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 35
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