Making Space

A FAREWELL RITUAL FOR THE DEBUT BOOK

IT TAKES a lifetime to write a debut book. It is the sum of all that an author has read, learned, and experienced until that moment. While working toward the completion of my debut poetry collection, Diaries of a Terrorist, I searched deep within myself to understand my voice and my relation to literary craft. I read about anglophonic traditions in the United Kingdom and the United States. I read works in translation by authors from Korea to Iran. I read about the impact of revolutionary Soviet poets on revolutionary Salvadoran poets. I performed spoken word, and I taught my students about poets of oration during South Africa’s apartheid. I theorized with friends about mixed-media and Insta-poetry. To arrive at my first book, I took the long road to understanding…

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Poets & Writers (Digital) - 1 Issue, November/December 2023

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