As a former Florida resident, I know all too well about the struggle between Haitian and Cuban immigrants particularly. What’s considered american soil and just how badly the struggle remains between who can be sent back and who can stay. Race plays such a major in all of it. It feels like I can still [...]
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places left unfinished
Posted in Places Left Unfinished, character, chronology, flashback, setting, voice, tagged ancestry, awesome, biculturality, border, complex, craft, dark, exile, family, flow, fluidity, history, intuition, John Phillip Santos, language, malachite, memoir, mysticism, novel, Places Left Unfinished at the Time of Creation, precision, process, santos, spanish, spirituality, the bomb, timing, translate, translation, wood on February 11, 2008 | 2 Comments »
it’s obvious that Santos is a poet. his use of repetition (“have all the Santos died?”), his precision, & timing make all the stories within this memoir intriguing & engaging. what i loved most about this book is the seamlessness between Santos’ family history & the story of his life. his craft is novel (no pun intended…or maybe [...]
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