Contents
GALAXIES | république d’haiti
The Act of Counting
The Sound
As We Wait
Music under Sealed Windows
The Violins
Listening to Crickets
She
The City Is Mine, Jay-Z
Glory
Ti Malis
Ten Drumbeats to God
Tout rivyè gen zen / All rivers have gossip
The Villagers and the Sleepwalker
On Blindness
Noir, une lumière
Ways of Rebelling
Bury the Bird
Anita’s Song
Lucy Ball
Love Undone: Se Ou Mwen Vle
Galaxy of Men
Thierry
Nadege
Pascal
Toussaint
JanJak
Elsie
Jean-Baptiste
Martine
Frantz
Notes to the Slave
L’Ouverture
Mardi Gras—Carnaval
Mardi Gras—Voye Monte
TWILIGHT | república dominicana
Strong Motion
Portrait of Stillness
Angela in El Cibao
Sugar, Sugar
Dimensions for Inventions
Traditions of Hope
Boys at the Intersection
Counting Time
Milagro’s Recollections
History of Sad Thunder
Amor en la Zona Colonial
Ta’bien Negra
How to Bite Hard
El Viejo del Malecón
I Am Going to Speak About Liberty
Pa’ya
Pa’lante
Chariot on Lope de Vega
Last Night in San Pedro de Macorís
Repetitions at Colmadito #3, Calle Gaspar Polanco
La Carta del Capitán
Anacaona
Santo Domingo
Yagua
Notes
Acknowledgements