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Boat People: A Conversation with Mayra Santos Febres and Vanessa Perez-Rosario.
Tue, Oct 10
|Zoom.
Join us for a conversation with Mayra Santos-Febres, author, and Vanessa Pérez-Rosario, translator, of the award-winning poetry collection Boat People. They will discuss the inspiration for the book and the themes of immigration and belonging that are explored in the book.
Time & Location
Oct 10, 2023, 6:30 PM – 8:00 PM EDT
Zoom.
About the Event
About the Book:
Poetry. African & African American Studies. Latinx Studies. Translated by Vanessa Pérez-Rosario. "Mayra Santos-Febres is one of our most powerful writers; and BOAT PEOPLE has long been a part of the poetic counter-tradition that shaped generations of Puerto Rican poets. Thanks to Vanessa Pérez-Rosario; English-language readers are now plunged into the depths of a text that; to echo Patrick Chamoiseau; is composed of 'that strange conference of poets and great beings;' lost at sea; tossed on shores; or caught in a world without return address or safe passage. Written like a border drawn on water; this oceanic book is both a source of life and a record of death. It remains as devastatingly urgent as the day it was written."--Raquel Salas Rivera
About the Author:
Mayra Santos-Febres was born in Carolina, Puerto Rico 1966. She studied literature at the University of Puerto Rico and a Ph. D.…