Description
Honeyfish confronts life and death. The collection begins and ends with poems that memorialise and mourn the deaths of African Americans who have died at police hands, though to call them poems of protest would simplify their exploration of what life means in relation to death.
It is a collection whose architecture works to make each poem, beautiful in their singular grace, add up to much more than the sum of their individual parts. Thus, the poems that explore the complexities of a life that involves the dislocations of migration, the pain of racism and misogyny and the sometimes fraught complications of love and family life speak all the more strongly of the value of a determined engagement with life because of their relationship to the poems that address the suddenness of death.
About the Author
Lauren K. Alleyne hails from the twin island nation of Trinidad and Tobago. Her fiction, poetry and non-fiction have been widely published in journals and anthologies, including The Atlantic, Ms.Muse, Women's Studies Quarterly, Interviewing the Caribbean, The Crab Orchard Review, among many others. Her debut collection, Difficult Fruit, was published in February 2014 by Peepal Tree Press.
Book Information
ISBN 9781845234416
Author Lauren K. Alleyne
Format Paperback
Page Count 96
Imprint Peepal Tree Press Ltd
Publisher Peepal Tree Press Ltd
