Sea In My Bones by Juana Goergen, translated by Silvia Tandeciarz
POETRY BOOK SOCIETY TRANSLATION CHOICE WINTER 2023
Lesley Saunders His steady gaze is well

His steady gaze is well worth following

from the flame-stitch to embroidery

'If the alphabet is a piano keyboard then Michael Pedersen plays it with the confidence and panache of a jazz improviser who knows that every note can have the potential to change someone's life

and the lapwing life in a field of young barley

’Gowanus atropolis reinscribes

Sea In My Bones by Juana Goergen, translated by Silvia Tandeciarz<br><b>POETRY BOOK SOCIETY TRANSLATION CHOICE WINTER 2023</b><br> Lesley Saunders His steady gaze is wellThe 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