Jennifer Maritza McCauley\'s \'Scar On/Scar Off\' is by turns neon-lit and beating, defiant and clashing, searching and struggling, in fistfuls of recognition, in constant pursuit of intersections and dualities.
This is a profound collection, a rebel language..
In the rhythm and snap of these poems and fragmentary stories, we find echoes of Sarah Webster Fabio, Beyonce, flamenco, Nikki Giovanni, street slang, danger and hope.
Hand, through polyglossia and hybrid text, Mccauley evokes vividly the relationships between psyche and city, identity and language.
Drawing on Audre Lorde, Gloria Anzaldua, Toni Morrison, Claudia Rankine, and the inspirations of her late friend Monica A.
Jennifer Maritza McCauley\'s \'Scar On/Scar Off\' is by turns neon-lit and beating, defiant and clashing, searching and struggling, in fistfuls of recognition, in constant pursuit of intersections and dualities
