Reader I Married Him & Other Queer Goings On

- poems like "Denial" push us to recognize ourselves in this collection, with its title poem offering us another contradictory migration story that reworks the standard heterosexual narrative. Sensual poems of desire, aging, need, place and historical location take us through to the writer's enduring love of nature - Carole Boyce Davies, Professor of Africana Studies and English at Cornell University is author of Caribbean Spaces (UI Press, 2013) This is Smartt at her sensual and lyrical best. These poems sing, and dance and love passionately - this small body of work is subversive, radical, and surprisingly panoramic. Smartt's cartography renders new the old directive that we love each other, that we build and sustain community, that we protect and care for each other's needs, desires and dreams... Donna Aza Weir-Soley, poet and Associate Professor of English at Florida International University, is co-editor of Caribbean Erotic (Peepal Tree Press, 2010)