The Sea Needs No Ornament / El mar no necesita ornamento

Thirty-three poets from the English and Spanish-speaking Caribbean offer poems in a variety of forms and styles—from free verse, formal, experimental, and exuberant to minimalist— employing a range of language registers, including borrowings from children's ring games to blues rhythms. They speak in equally varied voices: lyrical, ironic, incensed, carnivalesque, meditative, and transgressive. Poems range over all aspects of women's lives, from childhoods of joy or sorrow, relationships with men