{"product_id":"santos-febres-mayra-boat-people-copy","title":"Santos-Febres, Mayra: Boat People","description":"\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eTranslated by Vanessa Pérez-Rosario (Cardboard House\u003c\/span\u003e Press, paperback)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ePublication Date: June 15, 2021\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"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\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"The ocean in BOAT PEOPLE is haunted and the book is the heartbreaking journey from sea to horizon. Melancholy and songlike, Santos-Febres documents the nameless, the chum: bodies set adrift by commerce. Like M. NourBese Philips's\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eZong!,\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003ethis phenomenal translation in which I become 'a drop of fish sweat,' my body dancing to the poetry's music but also lamenting the violences that underlie it.\"—Carmen Giménez Smith\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Open Books: A Poem Emporium","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44226258829335,"sku":"9781945720192","price":8.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0004\/6497\/7956\/products\/msf.jpg?v=1621112112","url":"https:\/\/open-books-a-poem-emporium.myshopify.com\/products\/santos-febres-mayra-boat-people-copy","provider":"Open Books: A Poem Emporium","version":"1.0","type":"link"}