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Achy Obejas is a Cuban American writer, translator, and activist whose work focuses on personal and national identity.
She’s here to talk about her book of poetry Boomerang/Bumeran (Beacon Press), which is English and Spanish.
Achy also is the author of the novel Days of Awe and the story collection The Tower of the Antilles.
In this conversation, we talk about:
- Translation
- Writing the poems in English and Spanish
- How working as a writer for Netflix helps her prose and poetry
- And keeping some writing private
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