Review of Bone Language by Lúcia Leão
“To read Jamaica Baldwin’s debut collection attentively is to become aware of how much her poems act inside the instability of language. How much they translate a search for a difference in perception−of her mother, her father, and herself. How much repetition is used to signal identity changes, to unglue meanings, and to anchor in memory and orality what matters. Hers is a speech where signification transborders.”