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Every Monday night, Musician Ted Jennings plays at Lulu’s Waikiki. While he’s usually used to customers doing their own thing, his most recent performance went differently than he expected.
In these opening verses of Lineage of Rain ( Haymarket Books, £7.99), Salvadoran poet and educator Janel Pineda begins her mesmerising story, one of Salvadoran migration, diaspora and the US-sponsored civil war that fuses the personal with the communal and the political with everyday life. Each poem in this powerful pamphlet sings its own beautiful tune, taking the reader on a journey of discoveries and redemption, from El Salvador to Los Angeles and back. There are moving family narratives where women take centre stage, as in Rain, where the grandmother Tana passes down stories and me...