Poetry Book Society

Loretta Collins Klobah's incendiary and incantatory poems summon the spectre of The Twelve Foot Neon Woman, a 21^st Century Amazon, a ‘Madonna Urbana', witness and warrior, straddling the world and scorching the earth. Her language is electric, vivid with bop and bomba, fertile in folklore and rude with the rhythms of the graffitied present, like a barrio built on ancient foundations, teeming with histories real and unrealized, a patois of righteous rage and the violently beatific.
She maps the island as palimpsest, a time-lapse portrait of woman wronged yet enduring; a landscape pitted with scars, slowly healing. Each verse adds voice to the coruscating chorus in a collection that raises the reader from the page, afire with tender fury.