Ricantations

By Loretta Collins Klobah

Book Overview

Ricantations will reinforce the perception of Collins Klobah as superb poetic storyteller with a compassionate and radical womanist vision, alert to the multi-layered reality of Puerto Rican life, where shiny modernity gives way to spirit presences. There are absorbingly reflective poems on Juan Carre o de Miranda's paintings of an hyperphagic child, a stray horse that hangs around the poet's property, homunculi in glass bottles in a teaching hospital, the keeper of a butterfly farm, a high-wire circus family, and the irony of Nathan Leopold becoming the expert on Puerto Rican bird life. Poems begin from the most fantastic premises--a Che Guevera club in heaven with prizes for the coolest Che impersonator--then line by line open up her island's secret heart, revealing a society under multiple pressures even before Hurricane Maria, about which the title poem offers a brilliantly hallucinatory picture.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1845234235
• ISBN13: 9781845234232
• Release Date: July 2018
• Publisher: Peepal Tree Press
• Length: 128 Pages
• Weight: 0.39 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.3" x 8.0"