Capricornucopia (el. knyga) (skaityta knyga) | Paula Neves | knygos.lt

Aprašymas

paulA neves is native of the Ironbound section of Newark, NJ, a working class, immigrant neighborhood that has given voice to many artists. It is also, like many such places in America, quickly gentrifying.
Accordingly, these poems, as Millicent Borges Accardi writes, "tell the story of family. Here are lives lived on the edge of a broader knowing and an insularity, an open heart tempered by the visions of an old soul, poetry infused with images of food and prayer, encompassing a reaching out between and beyond immigrant, American, and regional slag, tough street talk from the Ironbound." These poems consider a place, as Rigoberto González observes, "where life-long questions about love, beauty, and loss take shape," and, through their explorations of work, heartbreak, illness, and the degrees of the American Dream, offer "a feast for the discerning taste."

neves has received fellowships/residencies from CantoMundo, the Sundress Academy for the Arts, the Luso-American Development Foundation, and the Disquiet International Literary Program.