The Sea Needs No Ornament/ El mar no necesita ornamento is
the first bilingual anthology of contemporary poetry by women writers of the
English- and Spanish-speaking Caribbean and its diasporas to be curated in more
than two decades. The anthology presents a selection of work by poets from
Cuba, the Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico, and from various Anglophone
Caribbean islands and the Diaspora. Each poem is presented first in the
original, followed by the translation. Excitingly, the majority of poets have
not yet been widely translated or included in a bilingual anthology of this
scope.