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No Way in the Skin Without This Bloody Embrace
Longlisted for the 2023 PEN America Award for Poetry in Translation.
In Jean D'Amérique's book-length poem, each page is as brief as a hurricane's eye, glimpsing the eerie territory his speaker traverses like an apocalyptic fláneur. His "body / a devastation inventory," his stroll a "walk / to curse the sidewalks," he peers into the ruins--left by the winds of colonialism, capitalism, war, and natural disaster--and sees a "crop of eyes" peering back. What others dismiss as broken, for D'Amérique, is a mirror in shards, "drinking up all the world's rot / then spilling it all out in diamantine rays." The first of his books to appear in English, this work reclaims the visceral potency of poetry--it is food, it is "collars of blood," it is a garment sewn with "a thread of sobs."
Poetry. Caribbean Studies.
Book Details
- Publisher: Ugly Duckling Presse
- Publish Date: Sep 15th, 2022
- Pages: 120
- Language: English
- Edition: undefined - undefined
- Dimensions: 7.10in - 4.90in - 0.40in - 0.26lb
- EAN: 9781946433947
- Categories: • Caribbean & Latin American
About the Author
Conor Bracken is the author of HENRY KISSINGER, MON AMOUR (Bull City Press) and The Enemy of My Enemy is Me (forthcoming from Diode Editions). He is also the translator of Mohammed Khaïr-Eddine's SCORPIONIC SUN (CSU Poetry Center). His work has earned fellowships from Bread Loaf, the Community of Writers, the Frost Place, Inprint, and the Sewanee Writers' Conference, and has appeared in places like BOMB, jubilat, New England Review, The New Yorker, and Ploughshares, among others. He lives in Ohio.
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"The speaker is an amputation . . . a tongue torn out and dragging itself along in search of contact and reintegration, streaking blood in its wake." William Repass reviews NO WAY IN THE SKIN WITHOUT THIS BLOODY EMBRACE by Haitian poet Jean D’Amérique: https://t.co/dXV4FHN8Rf.
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No Way in the Skin without This Bloody Embrace, by Jean D’Amérique, tr. by Conor Bracken. Jean D'Amérique's book-length poem peers into the ruins--left by the winds of colonialism, capitalism, war, & natural disaster--& sees a "crop of eyes" peering back. #HaitianLit #Poetry🧵 https://t.co/uedptDmfFO
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What people are saying
Reviews. Interviews. Marginalia. An online publication of literary criticism focusing on debuts, works in translation, and books published by small presses.
"The speaker is an amputation . . . a tongue torn out and dragging itself along in search of contact and reintegration, streaking blood in its wake." William Repass reviews NO WAY IN THE SKIN WITHOUT THIS BLOODY EMBRACE by Haitian poet Jean D’Amérique: https://t.co/dXV4FHN8Rf.
#WorldKidLit #WIT #IntlYALit #GLLITranslatedYABookPrize Shop here: https://t.co/05wWiJotMk
No Way in the Skin without This Bloody Embrace, by Jean D’Amérique, tr. by Conor Bracken. Jean D'Amérique's book-length poem peers into the ruins--left by the winds of colonialism, capitalism, war, & natural disaster--& sees a "crop of eyes" peering back. #HaitianLit #Poetry🧵 https://t.co/uedptDmfFO