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Return Against the Flow

by Susana Praver-Pérez

Return Against the Flow is a countersong that imagines a collective future beyond the death-flow of disaster capital. In lines that compress and unfold on the page, Praver-Pérez decenters the voices of developers and colonial apologists to amplify those of mothers, neighbors, storytellers, and with them, the bomba drums of an archipelago and its many diasporas across Puerto Rico, New York, Oakland, and beyond. In the spirit of Aimé Césaire, the author invokes poetry as a revolutionary knowledge that allows us to name the “collapsing scaffold of the past” and “to see through / twisted histories” so we can “become an ocean, buoy the future.”

—Urayoán Noel, poet, performer, translator, and professor at NYU and Stetson University’s MFA of the Americas

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