What Keeps Me Sane
$18.00
Esperanza Cintrón
Winner of the 2013 Naomi Long Madgett Poetry Award
“What Keeps Me Sane is a choir of women’s voices. Cintrón’s work might differ from Nina Simone’s ‘Four Women’ but it is just as moving. Unlike Simone, she explores something much deeper than color …. There is triumph as well as pain and hurt in the lives of Aiyo, Lily, Brisa and Plum. Cintrón’s work consists of story telling jewels that … are meditations on what it means to be a woman and how to remain sane in the world.”
—E. Ethelbert Miller
“These poems. . . knock the wind out of you. You’ll get lost in the haunting beauty and terrible sadness of Cintrón’s What Keeps Me Sane. You might have to pinch your skin or bite your fleshy palm in order to stay in the pages. But you’ll remember these words on the path to sanity and realize that you are not traveling alone.”
—Lolita Hernandez
“What Keeps Me Sane is a passionate brisa of images that clean and refresh as it comes to terms with the unfathomable…. Esperanza Cintrón’s voice and images transcend … the NYC diaspora and its predominantly militant, male ‘mean street’ voices and interweaves the subjective, cultural, and historic richness of the Diasporican urban experience adding subtle yet lush overtones of symbolic textural dimension. ”
—José M. Irizarry Rodriguez
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Naomi Long Madgett Award
Accepting award entries between January 2 and March 1, 2022.
Guidelines for the Naomi Long Madgett Poetry Award