Sea In My Bones by Juana Goergen, translated by Silvia Tandeciarz
POETRY BOOK SOCIETY TRANSLATION CHOICE WINTER 2023
Polly Atkin - Kim Moore

- Kim Moore

celebrated for deft lyrics

for us all to share

he dictated the poems to his wife

– Michael Hofmann

Sea In My Bones by Juana Goergen, translated by Silvia Tandeciarz<br><b>POETRY BOOK SOCIETY TRANSLATION CHOICE WINTER 2023</b><br> Polly Atkin - Kim MooreThe 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