Sea in my Bones: Mar en los Huesos

Juana Goergen's Mar en los huesos [Sea in my Bones] is a multilingual tour de force that explores the Caribbean's ancestral past and imagines the future through indigenous and African belief systems, languages, and memories. It speaks to the broken present and poses questions about the role of poetry in communities that have survived collective trauma.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 200 pages
Publication date: 06 October 2023
Publisher: The 87 Press

Juana Goergen's Mar en los huesos [Sea in my Bones] is a powerful fourth collection of poetry that explores a shared collective experience of trauma. Through the interweaving of indigenous and African belief systems, languages, and memories, the book recollects the Caribbean's ancestral past and imagines its future. At the same time, it speaks to the broken present, crying against injustice and holding hope that through its labor, the Zemies might awaken and the Caribbean peoples' origin be remembered.

Goergen's multilingual tour de force, which slips between Spanish, Taino, and Yoruba, creates a cacophony of voices that bring together what life has torn apart. The collection poses important questions about the role of poetry in communities that have survived collective trauma. Can such poetry of witness serve as a form of restitution? Or does it hold the promise of something else?

For fans of Nathalie Diaz, Aria Aber, Alycia Pirmohamed, and Bhanu Kapil, Mar en los huesos is a must-read that offers a unique and powerful perspective on the human experience.

Weight: 170g
Dimension: 130 x 198 x 13 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781739393922