belonging, on self: poems on dominirican healing
is a collection of poems to heal the inner child of a
Dominirican body. It explores the journey toward self-actualization
as each poem break open themes of abandonment and abuse,
homelessness, coming out, surviving poverty, finding joy, and
discovering the self despite the circumstances. At once, the poems
are glimpses into one of many New York-born immigrants making sense
out of family generational traumas, traversing language barriers, and
creating a second skin of island folk tales in new lands. Using vivid
place and space as characters, belonging, on self
walks with a delicate evolution of self through
community with infinite compassion and intimacy. The collection spans
across communities in remembrance of the past, its pains, and passes
the baton for others to explore healing fuelled by joy and radical
self-love.
