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This spring Anhinga Press published Éric Morales-Franceschini’s Syndrome via the Philip Levine Prize for Poetry. Syndrome, chosen as the winner by Juan Felipe Herrera, explores Puerto Rican identity via a rich lexicon that includes code-switching between English and Spanish. Partly lyric, partly manifesto, the poems in Syndrome are political, challenging, and authentic. They build to a complex response to colonialization. You can read one of his amazing poems here…
Congratulations, Eric!
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Radio
I left it
on when I
left the house
for the pleasure
of coming back
ten hours later
to the greatness
of Teddy Wilson
"After You've Gone"
on the piano
in the corner
of the bedroom
as I enter
in the dark
from New and Selected Poems by David Lehman
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