Listening and responding to hurricanes: Ana Portnoy Brimmer and Caribbean immersive poetics

This article traces a shift in Caribbean literature's engagement with hurricanes since Irma and Maria, the two category-five storms that devastated the region in 2017. Focusing on two poems by Puerto Rican writer Ana Portnoy Brimmer, it identifies a poetics of immersion that responds to catastrophe through sonic means – a strategy rooted in the broader sonic textures of Caribbean writing. The article examines how Portnoy Brimmer's use of sound articulates a language for the bodily experience of storms, and in doing so, forges alternative relationships between human and non-human worlds.