sx salon 32

sx salon 32

General issue

World-Making Words

Kendel Hippolyte, Wordplanting (Leeds: Peepal Tree, 2019); 56 pages; ISBN 978-845234355 (paperback)

Trans . . . lation, “That Third Thing That Gives Value” to Contemporary Puerto Rican Poetry

Raquel Salas Rivera, Lo terciario / The Terciary (Oakland, CA: Timeless, Infinite Light, 2018); 176 pages; ISBN 978-1937421274 (paperback)

Loretta Collins Klobah, Ricantations (Leeds: Peepal Tree, 2018); 140 pages; ISBN 978-1845234232 (paperback)

Caribbean Literature, Visual Art, and Performance as Resistance

Lawrence La Fountain-Stokes, Escenas transcaribeñas: Ensayos sobre teatro, performance y cultura (San Juan: Editorial Isla Negra, 2018); 292 pages; ISBN 978-9945608052 (paperback)

Blooming in the Pursuit of Wellness

Jasminne Méndez, Night-Blooming Jasmin(n)e: Personal Essays and Poetry (Houston: Arte Público, 2018); 227 pages; ISBN 978-1558858619 (paperback)

The First Haitian Migrants and the Unevenness of Empire

Matthew Casey, Empire’s Guestworkers: Haitian Migrants in Cuba during the Age of US Occupation (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2017); 313 pages, ISBN 978-1107127692 (hardback)

Voicing the Reclamation in Kei Miller’s The Cartographer Tries to Map a Way to Zion 

Piri’s Harlem: Afro-Puerto Rican Documentary and Urban Space

“Writing Is an Arsenal”: An Interview with Colin Robinson

Poem by Janine Shand