Banyan: Poems

Rating:
Summary: Re: Letter to Cuba
Review: If you've ever lost someone special to you or in specific your father, this book of poetry goes beyond catharsis. I recently lost my father and I myself am Cuban-American, so I guess that's why I connected so well with this book, especially Letter to Cuba. This book is one of the reasons I even started to think of writing about my own father and what eventually led me to getting back into my own poetry. So if you enjoy poetry about love, loss, happiness, and grief this is the book for you.

Rating:
Summary: Re: Letter to Cuba
Review: If you've ever lost someone special to you or in specific your father, this book of poetry goes beyond catharsis. I recently lost my father and I myself am Cuban-American, so I guess that's why I connected so well with this book, especially Letter to Cuba. This book is one of the reasons I even started to think of writing about my own father and what eventually led me to getting back into my own poetry. So if you enjoy poetry about love, loss, happiness, and grief this is the book for you.

Rating:
Summary: Relating like a Hispanic
Review: Reading many of the poem collections in Banyan makes me feel like I belong to them. Poems like Aguacero, Blisters, or Chickens remind me of the blue collar work that my father has done his whole life to support his family. In all three of these poems, the first lines are "my father", which triggers in me a feeling of family that I will always relate to.
Blisters has is specially graphic, and I relate to the way minor injuries were dealt with at home. These poems scream humanity into a Cuban Culture that has been denied the right to vocalize it.

Rating:
Summary: Relating like a Hispanic
Review: Reading many of the poem collections in Banyan makes me feel like I belong to them. Poems like Aguacero, Blisters, or Chickens remind me of the blue collar work that my father has done his whole life to support his family. In all three of these poems, the first lines are "my father", which triggers in me a feeling of family that I will always relate to.
Blisters has is specially graphic, and I relate to the way minor injuries were dealt with at home. These poems scream humanity into a Cuban Culture that has been denied the right to vocalize it.