Sea In My Bones by Juana Goergen, translated by Silvia Tandeciarz
POETRY BOOK SOCIETY TRANSLATION CHOICE WINTER 2023
Lesley Saunders from the flame-stitch to embroidery

from the flame-stitch to embroidery

Among the poets included are Alberto Caeiro

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

and the lapwing life in a field of young barley

When Roy Fisher told Gael Turnbull in 1960 that he had ‘started writing like mad’ and produced ‘a sententious prose book

Sea In My Bones by Juana Goergen, translated by Silvia Tandeciarz<br><b>POETRY BOOK SOCIETY TRANSLATION CHOICE WINTER 2023</b><br> Lesley Saunders from the flame-stitch to embroideryThe 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