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Underworlds is history and poetry intertwined, a story of brutality and colonial violence stretching in a line back to Columbus, and of an island that refuses to give up. Patrick Sylvain draws a line from Columbus and the slave trade to U.S. interventions and bloody dictatorships; Underworld's pages drip with grief. But the poetry here is also hopeful and defiant and proud.
Underworld, much like [a:Eve L. Ewing|16390753|Eve L. Ewing|https://images.gr-assets.com/authors/1581363683p2/16390753.jpg]'s masterful [b:1919|41746074|1919|Eve L. Ewing|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1558450192l/41746074._SX50_.jpg|65149085] with its nuanced depiction of Chicago history, would serve well to bring colonial history to life, as it draws right from Columbus's own words, or from the sordid histories of interventions and of dictators—but it is also elegant, beautiful poetry, a road very much worth traversing.
Underworld, much like [a:Eve L. Ewing|16390753|Eve L. Ewing|https://images.gr-assets.com/authors/1581363683p2/16390753.jpg]'s masterful [b:1919|41746074|1919|Eve L. Ewing|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1558450192l/41746074._SX50_.jpg|65149085] with its nuanced depiction of Chicago history, would serve well to bring colonial history to life, as it draws right from Columbus's own words, or from the sordid histories of interventions and of dictators—but it is also elegant, beautiful poetry, a road very much worth traversing.
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