Sea In My Bones by Juana Goergen, translated by Silvia Tandeciarz
POETRY BOOK SOCIETY TRANSLATION CHOICE WINTER 2023
Polly Atkin Kholin 66 is a trampoline

Kholin 66 is a trampoline into underground Soviet poet Igor Kholin's life and work through the window of a single autumn

These poems address familial relationships

(‘For when you fall in it you will always find the biggest pile

for us all to share

he dictated the poems to his wife

Sea In My Bones by Juana Goergen, translated by Silvia Tandeciarz<br><b>POETRY BOOK SOCIETY TRANSLATION CHOICE WINTER 2023</b><br> Polly Atkin Kholin 66 is a trampolineThe fourth collection of poetry in Juana Goergen's rich trajectory, Mar en los huesos [Sea in my Bones] bears witness to a shared collective experience of trauma. It interweaves indigenous and African belief systems, languages, and memories to recollect the Caribbean's ancestral past and its imagination of the future. As is true of all memory work, Sea in my Bones simultaneously speaks to the broken present: its cry against injustice rests on the hope