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Cantos
to Blood & Honey
Reviews
Academy of American Poets Eric Mathieu King
Winner
Florida
History & the Arts:
“Documenting
a less familiar view of South Florida life than that
found in popular novels, the poetry of Adrian Castro
explores thoughts about exile and homelands . . .
History, myth, and the migratory experience figure
into the musical prose and poetry of his Cantos
to Blood & Honey .” —Florida History & the
Arts
Minnesota
Daily:
“Castro's use of language is as inclusive as it is
daunting—he's spreading his roots while reclaiming
them. . . . So is Adrian Castro the future of poetry?
We should be so lucky.”
Xcp: Cross Cultural Poetics:
“In Cantos ,
Castro pulls the pain of the past into the pride
of the present. These poems are a series of tugs:
the poet insists that regardless of the resistance,
and regardless of the fact that he's moving on barely
charted trails, he WILL bring this tricultural language
to the fore.”
Tucson Weekly:
“Drawing from Spanish, English and Yoruba languages,
drumming rhythms and a colorful palette of historic
and ultra-contemporary imagery, [Castro's] original
poetry layers diverging histories, mythologies and
aesthetics from Africa, the Caribbean and North America
in an attempt to synthesize the complex cultural experiences
of our great American ‘melting pot.'”
Arizona Daily Star:
“In
this debut work, Castro passionately emulates the
rhythmic Afro-Caribbean tradition pioneered by performance
poets Nicolas Guillen and Luis Pales Mates.”
Virgil Suarez:
“Cantos
to Blood & Honey is a celebration—a
celebration of a lively, original, and mesmerizing
new voice who is destined to burn a path through the
contemporary American poetry scene. If we read and
listen, we will be taken over by this fine poet in
a knockout and lasting debut.”
Victor
Hernández Cruz, from the introduction:
“If
Chano Pozo the Cuban drummer who conspired with Dizzie
Gillespie were hitting the keys of a typewriter instead
of the skin of a drum, this is what he would have
written.”
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