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Marooning (feat. Patrick Sylvain)

from The Poets Are Gathering by Benjamin Boone

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Patrick Sylvain is a poet, writer, and scholar and is a faculty member at Brown University’s Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies. Additionally, Sylvain is also a lecturer in anthropology at the University of Massachusetts, Boston. He is published in several anthologies, academic journals, books, magazines, and reviews, including Agni, Callaloo, Caribbean Writers, Haiti Noir, Human Architecture: A Sociology Journal, Poets for Haiti, Fixing Haiti and Beyond, The Butterfly’s Way, Tectonic Shifts, The Best of Beacon Press, and The Oxford Book of Caribbean Verse. Recently featured in PBS NewsHour and National Public Radio’s Here and Now and The Story, he is also a contributing editor to the Boston Haitian Reporter.

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Patrick Sylvain calls upon his Haitian roots to address the perils of immigration (“Marooning”) and the rueful memories of what is left behind in transit (“Ports of Sorrow”). On the former, he summons an image of “Toussaint’s descendants / once proud founders of freedom / now maroon themselves / in the night sky / trying to escape / hawkish eyes…” as Boone and Werner converse softly in the background.

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from The Poets Are Gathering, released October 16, 2020
Patrick Sylvain (p/n), Benjamin Boone (ss), Kenny Werner (pn)

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Benjamin Boone is a jazz saxophonist, composer, professor, and U.S. Fulbright Scholar to Ireland (2022-23), Ghana (2017-18) and the Republic of Moldova (2006). His Origin Records album THE POETRY OF JAZZ was #3 "Best Album of 2018" in the 83rd Annual Downbeat Readers Poll and featured on NPR's All Things Considered, The Paris Review, and many others. Websites: BenjaminBoone.com & OriginArts.com ... more

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