Description
In Coffee with Cayetano Lydia Towsey encounters the ghost of her unlikely ancestor, Cayetano Romero — Mexican Ambassador to Washington DC and the Court of St. James, keen amateur astronomer, and her grandfather''s grandfather. Across a year of encounters, the poems in Coffee with Cayetano move through imagined conversations and sudden visitations; through monologues spoken by the overlooked women in the margins, through kitchens and courtrooms, buses and borderlands. Over four generations — in accents, silences and departures. Coffee with Cayetano asks what it means to come from somewhere — and to find yourself arriving elsewhere. How do we carry the ones who made us? How do we live inside stories that began before we did? How do we continue — radiant with inheritance, crowded with ghosts, remade by love — when what we have lost is also what we are made of?