Cover art: “The Unfurling” by Renold Laurent
Cover design: Enzo Silon Surin
Underworlds
by Patrick Sylvain
$11.00
5 x 7 | 46 pages | Poetry
ISBN 978-1-941604-07-6
Publication Date: July 30, 2018
In his debut English language collection, UNDERWORLDS, Patrick Sylvain brings forth an excavation of historical significance. In this magnificent chapbook of poems, Sylvain takes the reader on a contemporary exploration of Caribbean & Haitian histories marred by man-made and natural disasters. From the undertow of the Atlantic Ocean to the rubbles of a catastrophic earthquake, each poem is a relic, bellowing “ancestral tongues” in an attempt to “un-scab the past.” This is a book for all generations.
about the author
PATRICK SYLVAIN | photo credit: Jalene Tamerat
Patrick Sylvain is a poet, writer, social critic, photographer. Twice nominated for the Pushcart Prize, his work has also been published in several scholarly and creative journals and anthologies. Sylvain holds an Ed.M. from Harvard University and an MFA from Boston University (Robert Pinsky Global Fellow) and serves on the faculty at Brown University. Sylvain is also the Shirle Dorothy Robbins Creative Writing Prize Fellow at Brandeis University and has a collection of essays, forthcoming from Beacon Press in 2019.