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Wise Fish: Tales in 6/8 Time
Reviews
New York Times Editor's
Choice
Gustavus Myers Award Honorable Mention
Judge's citation, Gustavus Myers Book Award:
“Cutting-edge
poetry grounded in diasporic discontinuities, and
the damage of slavery and cultural disruption.”
New York Times Book Review:
“Wise Fish is
a serious and seriously enjoyable contribution to
our flourishing Latino literature.”
Black Issues Book Review:
“In Wise Fish ,
Castro casts a discussion of African migration and
place into the mysteries, practices and spiritual
traces that Africans carry from one shore to the
other, and between life and death . . . skillfully
creat[ing] a world in which language, lore and longing
uneasily meet.”
MultiCultural Review:
“Castro's Wise Fish: Tales in 6/8 Time is
very much about the rhythms of language, the experience
of straddling cultures . . . It is also a volume that
weaves memory, tradition, history, and hope for the
future in an artful, dynamic way. ”
Rain Taxi:
“Castro's Wise Fish expands
the lexicon (and the function) of what Edouard Glissant
has termed ‘Caribbean
Discourse' . . . expanding on what is possible for
us to say—and therefore hear, understand, and feel.”
Bob Holman:
“From a e to ae aeeeee is how long
it takes for a word under slow waves to dissolve to pure
sound. This is the domain of Adrian Castro, el poeta
salsero, whose Wise Fish is composed solely
in Spanglishcubanotainocreole y la lengua del orisha.
Castro lays out a groove deep as an ocean trench, and
you flow with the go. Use the dorsal fin of the wise
fish to comb the language free of snarls, tangles and
knots. Now you got it, poetry's music. Open book, hear
music.”
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