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Makeshift Altar
Poems
Amy M. Alvarez explores the cultural, spiritual, and place-based experiences of Afro-Caribbean and African American diasporic peoples in this haunting and emotionally charged collection of poems that meditates on the meaning of home and existence. Born in New York City to Jamaican and Puerto Rican parents, Alvarez draws readers into a journey of self-discovery and identity, connecting the past with the present while highlighting the complexities of navigating life as a multicultural American. The musicality of her language weaves together themes of environment, family, and migration, as well as her own ancestry as a Black Latinx woman. Makeshift Altar is an intimate collection that explores identities forged by colonialism and displacement and shaped by individual choice and collective power.
About the Author
Amy M. Alvarez's work has appeared in Ploughshares, The Missouri Review, swamp pink (formerly known as Crazyhorse), and The Cincinnati Review, among others. She has been awarded fellowships from CantoMundo, VONA, Macondo, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, and the Furious Flower Poetry Center. Alvarez is coeditor of Essential Voices: A COVID-19 Anthology and teaches writing and literature at West Virginia University. In 2022, she was inducted as an Affrilachian Poet.
Reviews
"Makeshift Altar depicts what's lost in miscommunication or, worse yet, when no one utters a sound, telling us what we can learn from hallowed or broken bodies, soil and ocean, mothers and daughters, animals and men. Alvarez has reverence—for house, home and most things considered unholy, outcast, and ordinary. The past haunts us relentlessly, and she leans into that haunting in this work, reminding us '[a]ny version of home must begin/from the outside in.'"—Ramica Bingham-Risher, Cave Canem fellow, Affrilachian poet, and award-winning author of Soul Culture: Black Poets, Books, and Questions That Grew Me Up
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