PHILIPSBURG:— África en mi piel / Africa in My Skin / L’Afrique dans la peau by Rafael Nino Féliz has just been published here by House of Nehesi Publishers (HNP).
The title of the book, its cover design images, coupled with the nature of the poems as a travelogue, may border on the provocative in the poet’s homeland, said Lasana M. Sekou, HNP’s projects director. Féliz is a Dominican poet who was Vice-Chancellor of the Autonomous University of Santo Domingo (UASD).
The poems, in the original Spanish, with the English and French translations in one book, are strung together like ...
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