Description
Poetry. LIBERAMERICA's world is one full of ancestors and other creatures, a liminal space between languages, life and death, male and female, land and water, body and spirit. A territory of rituals and relations brought into being within the dynamic linguistic multiverse for which Monchoachi is best known. LIBERAMERICA is an archipelago of throats powering a flood of voices, sonically saturating and bursting through limitations of standard language. LIBERAMERICA is an excerpt from part one of Monchoachi's two-volume collection, Lémistè (Partition noire et bleue) ['Mistry (Black and Blue Partition)].
Author Bio
Writer, poet, and translator Monchoachi was born on the island of Martinique. He is the recipient of numerous awards, including the Prix Carbet de la Caraïbe et du Tout- Monde and the Prix Max Jacob. In 2007 he founded the Lakouzémi project, an annual gathering of writers, dancers, performers, and activists-together they vivify history and generate meaningful, actioned community. Martinican creole works include Dissidans (1980), Bèl-bèl zobèl (1983), and translations of Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot and Endgame (2002). His French works include L'espère-geste (2002) and Lémistè (2012). LIBERAMERICA (UDP, 2020) is his first collection of poems in English translation.
Author City: VAUCLIN FRA