From the first poem to the last, Smartt's new chapbook collection advocates a revolutionary decampment from the madhouse of desires reigned in to protect a precarious and often incoherent code of Caribbean respectability. This is Smartt at her sensual and lyrical best. These poems sing, and dance and love passionately 'til morning cum.
This helpful book is about the incidents you don't think about before you have children.
Adisa's essays are pragmatic, earthy, exploring the dual tones of mother and writer - her poems are flirtatious, a dance of language and process.