Review of Refugee Song

Refugee Song

It's rare to find a first collection of poems so layered with consequence and intoxicating metaphor. Feuchtwanger's account of his return visit to South Africa 'to unbury the dead' is exquisite and excruciating. This is an elegant and substantial new voice.


— Betsy Warland, author of Breathing the Page: Reading the Act of Writing

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Refugee Song

In Refugee Song, Lawrence Feuchtwanger takes the reader on a psychic journey back to the land of his birth, using sharply etched, taut, visceral poems to provide signposts along the way. Filled with echoes of longing and the ache that accompanies all attempts to return, the poems speak a language that is at once personal and political, held together by mythological strands that create yet another layer in this dense and intense spiritual travelogue.


— Michael Mirolla, author of Berlin

Refugee Song

What does it mean to leave the country—and the people—you love? To be uprooted from the soil that gave birth to, and nurtured you? To abandon both your past and your hoped-for future and embark on a voyage of uncertainty? As you contemplate the questions raised in Lawrence Feuchtwanger’s Refugee Song (Signature Editions, 2014), sip a Santero cocktail, a Mojito-like drink developed in Cuba circa 1940. The drink’s roots pay homage to the many people who were forcibly moved to the Caribbean, and the traditions they brought with them.

 

Santero Drink

 

What You Need:

2 tbsp of honey
1 lime (medium to large) quartered
5 oz. of dark rum
2 oz. champagne (any dry sparkling wine will do)

 

What to Do:

Place the room temperature limes in a large cocktail shaker. Add the honey and muddle thoroughly – the lime juice and honey need to be completely blended or the honey will coagulate when mixed with ice. Add the rum – do not add the ice yet – and give the shaker a thorough shake. Fill the shaker with ice and shake until a bit of foam appears at the top. Pour into two rocks glasses and top each with one ounce of champagne. Garnish with a lime twist.


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