Burn

Burn is a kaleidoscopic surreal and stunning collection. Bagoo forges carnivalesque enigmatic experimental vivid wild and wonder-inspiring poems full of verve and utterly fresh language that are by turns eerie elegiac fleshy pensive mournful rhapsodic and absolutely scorching...Poems traverse geographical locations from his island home of Trinidad to other Caribbean islands and as far distant as Iceland. There personal and societal angst passions and pleasures are held up to a ''sea of mirrors'' into which we gaze. Bagoo explores daily life love art history literature myth popular culture ritual and the molten ground of memory bringing together and animating douens lionfish Auden Mozart Caravaggio and Tchaikovsky among other figures. Bring the fire burn. -Loretta Collins-Klobah