Reviewed by Rama Gaind.
By Eunice Andrada, Giramondo Publishing, $24.00.
It’s a title where the obvious is not the case.
In this, Andrada explores the open wounds of colonial occupation, diaspora and inheritance.
A young Filipina-Australian woman is at the centre, her family has been irreparably damaged by deportation, violence and illness. Both personal and political events are felt more keenly and through the body.
It’s a graphic reach to your soul: ‘your blood sings of the scattered histories/that left you here’. An award-winning poet and lyricist, Andrada as a performance artist, has the power to connect.
It ‘combines the passionate intensity of voice, image and rhythms of prayer to affirm the brown female body as a site of vulnerability and power’.
Poetic lyrics give rise to graphic life images.
