Coco Island by Christine Roseeta Walker Fredrick Seidel How does one recover from

How does one recover from addiction without destroying the self-as-addict

Patrick Errington’s first collection traces the brittle boundaries between presence and absence

and reach towards grace and redemption

 Rite of Passage is his first collection

Coco Island by Christine Roseeta Walker Fredrick Seidel How does one recover fromChristine Roseeta Walker's first book is set entirely in Negril, Jamaica. Coco Island presents a compelling cycle of poems, attentive to the undertow and hidden forces that shape a place and its people. In narrative poems, in songs, in fables, in comic scenes, ghost stories and vivid character sketches especially of girls and women Walker artfully lays bare how economic necessity, religious belief, illness and addiction reach far into the structures