Sea In My Bones by Juana Goergen, translated by Silvia Tandeciarz
POETRY BOOK SOCIETY TRANSLATION CHOICE WINTER 2023
Lesley Saunders and reminded that all good

and reminded that all good education should be an education in class

the difficulty of defining what love is

’Gowanus atropolis reinscribes

His steady gaze is well worth following

Sea In My Bones by Juana Goergen, translated by Silvia Tandeciarz<br><b>POETRY BOOK SOCIETY TRANSLATION CHOICE WINTER 2023</b><br> Lesley Saunders and reminded that all goodThe fourth collection of poetry in Juana Goergen's 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 Caribbean's 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