Homing Instincts/Querencias by Nancy Morejón and translated by Pamela Carmell

This is poetry from Cuba.

Homing Instincts/Querencias by Nancy Morejón translated by Pamela Carmell is published by Cubanabooks. This is a Book originally written in Spanish. This was published in 2014.0 and has the ISBN of 9.780982786055E12.

Nancy Morejón’s Homing Instincts / Querencias, translated by Pamela Carmell, is a Cuban poetry entry centered on return, attachment, and the places that claim us before we know how to name them. “Querencia” carries a richer sense than simple home. It suggests the place of safety, desire, belonging, and animal instinct. Morejón’s work often moves through Afro-Cuban history, womanhood, memory, and cultural inheritance, and this book should be read with that layered attention. The bilingual title matters because the Spanish word resists being replaced. Published by Cubanabooks, the collection gives the library a voice of rooted lyric intelligence. It is a book about home as feeling, history, and unfinished demand.

If you’d like to see international poetry continue and gain traction, consider requesting this work from your local library, or purchasing it from places like Open Books (a poetry only bookstore), Asterism Books (an independent press distributor), or bookshop.org to connect you with your local bookstores.

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