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#Guyana #readaroundtheworld #readingtheamericas2023 A prose poem of no western logic. An indigenous woman who was abused by her master, kills him before fleeing. It is only one of his deaths. A boat, crewed by dead men who struggle to grasp life, chases after her. Our narrator is the dreamer. Our captain is a metaphor for colonial exploitation. The images are of the wilds of 16th century Guyana. I didn‘t understand it but it was still good.

I found this book completely impenetrable. I even restarted it after I was halfway through (it‘s short) and that didn‘t help. I don‘t know if it‘s the writing or the audiobook reader, whose voice has a gorgeous timbre, then comes across as monotone. If I had another option for #Guyana, I would have bailed.

#ReadingAmericas2023

My literary souvenir from my Hawaiian 🌺 vacation: the first book of poems ever published by a Marshallese author. Very cool that a female poet is the first. I meant to take a picture of it with a sandy or lush green background, but it will have to settle for the relative brown of the Midwest. #poetry #postcolonial #postcolonialliterature #femalepoets #neweyes