Contributors
Introduction by Sean Frederick Forbes
SEAN FREDERICK FORBES is the Director of the Creative Writing Program and Assistant Professor-in-Residence, Department of English at the University of Connecticut, Storrs. He serves as editor of the 2Leaf Press’ series, 2LP EXPLORATIONS IN DIVESRSITY, and has co-edited two books under that series: The Beiging of America, Personal Narratives about Being Mixed Race in the Twenty-First Century (2017), and WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO BE WHITE IN AMERICA? Breaking the White Code of Silence, A Collection of Personal Narratives (2016). The author of the poetry collection, Providencia: A Book of Poems (2013), he has written numerous introductions for 2Leaf Press poetry collections. His work has appeared in various journals, including Chagrin River Review, Crab Orchard Review, Long River Review, Midwest Quarterly, and Sargasso: A Journal of Caribbean Literature, Language and Culture. http://seanfrederickforbes.com.
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“Fluent in the language of hope and loss, WOUNDS FRAGMENTS DERELICT offers up pieces of a love story careening towards its familiar and inevitable end. From the delicate ruins, Carlos Gabriel Kelly has crafted a new world of hard-won wisdom, where the tender roots of romance, family and his Mexican culture intertwine. Steeped in nostalgia and shaped by the rough music of contemporary life, this is a beautiful and essential first book.” —Silvia Curbelo, award-winning poet and writer, author of The Secret History of Water (2015) and Falling Landscape (2015)
“I love the cheer energy and passion of Carlos Kelly’s voice in WOUNDS FRAGMENTS DERELICT. There is intricate range of emotion in this work the way it uplifts and brings to life various registers of language in the lyric. I love the attentiveness to detail the large, Whitmanic embrace, the insistence on living-in-the word. This is a gorgeous, memorable debut.” —Ilya Kaminsky, award-winning poet and author of Dancing in Odessa (2004) and Deaf Republic: Poems (2019)
“In a shattering debut collection of poetry, WOUNDS FRAGMENTS DERELICT, Carlos Gabriel Kelly’s first statement is a question. Much begins from the interrogative. What are love poems? Kelly answers utilizing a line break: ‘Fragments not in any language.’ The form borrows from the large tradition of Asian poetics, less heavily leaning on the didactic, working by juxtaposition, this poetry of implication has long been favored in United States poetics. As us Latinxs know well, it is a poetic aesthetic of much orgullo. Through these subtleties Kelly ensembles a formally dexterous work wound tight with pathos. This poetry has fallen through the many emotional and psychological trapdoors of love, and to open this poetry is to discover love in La Frontera.” —David Tomas Martinez, award-winning poet and writer, author of Hustle (2014) and Post-Traumatic Hood Disorder (2018)
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