Pitch Lake by Andre Bagoo Half the Human Race Tim Seibles

Tim Seibles

His professional portmanteau full of linguistic surprises

It’s a shock to think how little has changed

and look ahead as she tries to work out what it means to be the one who stays behind

adults occupy their childhood dreams and nightmares

Pitch Lake by Andre Bagoo Half the Human Race Tim SeiblesAndre Bagoo has been awarded The Charlotte and Isidor Paiewonsky Prize for first time publication in The Caribbean Writer for 'On Wordsworth's The Daffodils', a poem from Pitch Lake. You can download the poem below. Divided into three sections , Andre Bagoos poems explore the multiple resonances of the words, where pitch signifies both the stickiness of memory the way the La Brea Pitch Lake is a place where buried trees [are] born again and the idea