Difficult Fruit. Lauren K. Alleyne. 2014.
A collection of poems by a Trinidad/Tobago writer who emphasizes the losses . . . and hopes that women often experience. This is a set of poems I keep coming back to in 2014-15, to study their form, to experience their moods and textures, to struggle with the violence that the speaker reflects on and works through. I was privileged to meet Lauren at the national PCA/ACA conference in 2014 and hear her read from the collection. I am particularly interested in the disturbances in memory and time that are represented.