Jackie Dever

Gerardeen Santiago’s Shouldering Infinity gives readers a glimpse into the elusive space of boundlessness through poems that reflect the ensconced coatings of life. Santiago also grants us access into her private journey of transformation through rich descriptions and multilayered introspection. “Oh, leave me live inside my dreams instead! I curled into myself,” she wails in Regrets of a Tree. “The crust that dulls the cutting knife. Both froth and salt sustain me now, whose lips have kissed my battered brow,” screams truth in Self-Reliance. What is most remembered after being immersed in such profundity is Santiago’s universal declaration, “I am the blank mind: I am Nothing, the genesis of possibilities.” From these poems a dawn of possibilities arises, stretching us beyond the finite, into the realms of better understanding our reality.
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