Bermuda Poet Van Putten To Launch New Book
Bermuda educator, poet and writer Melodye Micëre Van Putten’s latest work, “Healing History: Reflections of Race and Forgiveness in Prose and Poetry” will be officially launched at the Bermuda National Library next Thursday [May 10].
Weaving narrative and verse in a scholarly and artistic exploration of historical events and contemporary quandaries, readers are invited to learn, think and reflect.
Ms Van Putten gives voice to the present-day call for freedom – a call not to forget the past, but to remember its lessons, and to engage in necessary forgiveness in order to heal from the deep fissures of race. Therein, she posits, lies the path to true liberation for us all.
Bermudian writer Colwyn Burchall — author of “Dame Lois: The People’s Advocate” – has said of Ms Van Putten’s poetry: “Her verse tears at our subconscious, demands engagement with the ugly secrets submerged in the marrow of our bones, grapples with the viscera of long-buried knowledge. ‘Healing History’ is courageous and relentless in its truth-telling. It is the djembe, rattling our insides, breaking us open, filling us up. May we all be moved.”
The free book launch event commences at the Bermuda National Library on Queen Street at 6 p.m.
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