Achy Obejas is the author of The Tower of the Antilles, which was a PEN/Faulkner finalist, and several other books of fiction. Her first full book of poetry, Boomerang, will be published by Beacon Press in a bilingual edition in 2021. She lives in the San Francisco Bay area and successfully nominated Edwidge Danticat for the 2018 Neustadt Prize.
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The Clock of the Long Now will operate knowing it will lose the correct time, exposed as it will be to imprecise temperatures, stellar and solar alignments, te...
Carlos Estévez, Self-Fishing, 2006, collage on paper, 39½ x 27½ inches / Courtesy of the artist
Now the beat
(there is always a beat).
Now the drums
and the darkness within.
Now the dance....
Photo: Shevaun Williams
Thank you to the Neustadt Prize committee, Neustadt sisters and family, the University of Oklahoma, the incredible writers who served with me on the jury last year.
It is my...
Elephants in Etosha National Park, Namibia / Photo by Richard Jacobs on Unsplash
for Reinaldo Arenas
I have seen a land of regal elephants, you wrote some years ago, not many really,...
Brooklyn. Akashic Books. 2017. 158 pages.
Achy Obejas’s new book, The Tower of the Antilles, amply fulfills the promise of the author’s earlier work. These stories are about borders—physical...
The first time I saw your father,I stared back into the pool at your reflectionwhile he waded through,the water moving in gentle circles away from us.
The first time, I thought it was the Nilewe’d dip...