CHRISTINA OLIVARES FEATURED ON HARRIET

Christina Olivares' NO MAP OF THE EARTH INCLUDES STARS is featured in Urayoan Noel's article for Harriet/Poetry Foundation, "Party Like It's 1898." Go HERE for entire article but here's Christina's mention:

Christina Olivares. No Map of the Earth Includes Stars. Marsh Hawk Press, 2015. 

White, Black, Puerto Rican, everybody just a-freakin, and this non-Cuban’s just a-groovin’ to Olivares’s syncopated dictations and lyric visions and poetic prose blocks, which redraw diasporic maps as palimpsests (as in how the poem “Palimpsest” answers its “City beckoned. To be come a new home” with “Reality laid over reality until nothing is whole any longer”). This call-and-response extends, over several poems, into a conversation with Babalú-Ayé, the Orisha (syncretized with Saint Lazarus) of the healing of the Earth. Against the legacy of 1898 and its juridical maps, where Cuba is just one more pawn of empire, Olivares offers a spiritual map attuned to “the memory of my hands moving through the carcasses of others’ prayers.”