Synopses & Reviews
Poetry. "Silvia Curbelo's poetry is accomplished, daring, full of energy and intelligence; it is the generous first manifestation of an authentic and original gift. Her poems embody imaginative honesty and a free-ranging and fresh sensibility. I think they should be welcomed and read with care"-W. S. Merwin.
Synopsis
As Carolyn Forche writes, "Silvia Curbelo's poetry conjures ghosts -- not only of family and former selves, but of acts and gestures whose 'secret history' surrounds an archipelago of human lives. Her cadences are marked by the urgency of smuggled testimony.