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To Make an Island of a Street Corner

To Make an Island of a Street Corner - Paperback

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Availability:In StockContributor:Anacaona Rocio MilagroPublish date:2024-08-01Pages:84
Language:EnglishPublisher:Black Freighter PressISBN-13:9781955953047ISBN-10:195595304XUPC:9781955953047Book Category:PoetrySize:9.00 x 6.00 x 0.20 inchesWeight:0.2998Product ID:SCEYZ6XYPE

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



Language:EnglishPublisher:Black Freighter PressISBN-13:9781955953047ISBN-10:195595304XUPC:9781955953047Book Category:PoetrySize:9.00 x 6.00 x 0.20 inchesWeight:0.2998Product ID:SCEYZ6XYPE
Publisher: Black Freighter Press

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