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To Make An Island of a Street Corner is Anacaona Rocio Milagro's palm reading of her beloved people. She extends the forefingers in her warm hands, and stanzas sprawl forward:
"birds living in a quiet corner of earth / must have burst open / mid-flight / staining the glass of sunset /without Witness," she writes this, and Uptown chants her name. So maybe this is a palm reading for all people, breathing with heartbeats. This book is a call and response.
These poems are holy. This poet is in the trenches, reading our charts and hearts with her keen poetic eye. She pens sharply: "My sister's the wife of the wind. / Her first husband was a solar eclipse. / We birthed every demigod in existence."
Milagro lyrically endears us with the island's arms. This city's block is vast, and here, all boats rise.
Mahogany L. Browne, Author of Chrome Valley
Author: Anacaona Rocio Milagro
Publisher: Black Freighter Press
Published: 08/01/2024
Pages: 84
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.30lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.20d
ISBN13: 9781955953047
ISBN10: 195595304X
BISAC Categories:
- Poetry | General
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