Boomerang / Bumerán Poetry / Poesía

A bilingual poetry collection from a Cuban-American writer-activist that explores themes of identity, sexuality, and belonging

A unique and inspiriting bilingual collection of lyrical poetry written in a bold, mostly gender-free English and Spanish that address immigration, displacement, love and activism.

The book is divided into 3 sections: First, poems addressing immigration and displacement; secondly, those addressing love, lost and found, and finally, verses focusing on action, on ways of addressing injustice and repairing the world. The volume will be both inspiration and support for readers living with marginalized identities and those who love and stand with them.

Achy Obejas is a Cuban-American writer, translator, and activist whose work focusing on personal and national identity has appeared in Prairie Schooner, Fifth Wednesday Journal, TriQuarterly, Another Chicago Magazine and many other publications. A native of Havana, she currently lives in the San Francisco Bay area.

Author’s Note

I

Boomerang, After Aimé Césaire
The Man in White
Volver
Heroes in Exile
The President of Coca-Cola
The Land of Regal Elephants
Recountal

II

My Island Lover
Waiting in Line with Hemingway
Inner Core
The Public Place, After Olga Broumas
Conceits
Dancing in Paradise
Succession
The Man with No Legs
Boomerang
Naiad
The World as We Know It
Slow

III

The Hospice, After Carolyn Forché
In Response to the Murder of Eleven Jews, Including a Ninety-Seven-Year-Old Said to Be a Holocaust Survivor, Who Wasn’t
The Ravages
You
Kol Nidrei
The March