SEAN FREDERICK FORBES is a poet and teaches writing and poetry at the University of Connecticut. He studied English and Africana Studies at Queens College, The City University of New York where he was an Andrew W. Mellon Fellow. He received his M.A. and Ph.D. in English from the University of Connecticut. His poems have appeared in Crab Orchard Review, The Midwest Quarterly and Sargasso: A Journal of Caribbean Literature, Language, and Culture. PROVIDENCIA is his first poetry collection.
"In PROVIDENCIA, Sean Forbes presents poetry that is rich in a kind of spare aesthetics. Spare, as in clear, as in extra and its opposite, sparingly, as in leave uninjured, as in can-you-spare-a-dime-yes, especially that sense of provide." - Kimiko Hahn, author of TOXIC FLORA "There is a lot to admire in this debut, including the wide formal range, ambitious scope, mythic power, and fascinating narrative. . . . In Forbes's quest, you will find personal poems that strike with resounding social significance, as well as poems that survey a sometimes gentle and sometimes violent historical landscape with visceral intimacy." - Jonathan Andersen, author of STOMP AND SING "In the vein of Jamaica Kincaid, PROVIDENCIA is a kaleidoscopic journey home to a very small place, an island that may appear tiny on a map but contains a whole world of feelings unto itself. . . With a yearning untainted by sentimentality, Forbes gracefully scribes his/our Caribbean diasporic family history in his debut book." - Lisa Sanchez Gonzalez, author of THE STORIES I READ TO THE CHILDREN, THE LIFE AND WRITING OF PURE BELPRE "Sean Frederick Forbes' poems are a luxurious blending of the exotic with the mundane, creating a world that is simultaneously familiar but tinged with a mild surrealism, a world just out of reach, but in clear focus . . . The absolute beauty of these poems is the self-confronting journey of a man who seeks to discover where he came from, to unravel who he is." - Bruce Cohen, author of PLACEBO JUNKIES CONSPIRING WITH THE HALF-ASLEEP"
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