{"id":4937,"date":"2021-02-12T19:48:05","date_gmt":"2021-02-12T19:48:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cynthiarodriguez.org\/?page_id=4937"},"modified":"2025-07-31T22:10:12","modified_gmt":"2025-07-31T22:10:12","slug":"meanwhile","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/cynthiarodriguez.org\/eng\/meanwhile\/","title":{"rendered":"Meanwhile"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Meanwhile (2020)<\/strong><\/strong><\/h1>\n\n\n\n

The debut poetry collection by Cynthia Rodr\u00edguez Ju\u00e1rez. Available now from Burning Eye Books.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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This is a book about being trapped in the Meanwhile. Walking through seemingly perpetual journeys between borders, genders, nationalities and social status. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

As product of mixing races, yet not mixed race. Inhabiting a large body of before with no clear sense of an after. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Set to a time of one\u2019s own, decades lost and found in the way, at the mercy of socio-political circumstances, legal procedures and test results. Cyclically prone to fail and start again.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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These respectability parameters are the ones accepted for those who are locked within the narrative of \u2018the good migrant\u2019, \u2018the successful queer\u2019, \u2018the child prodigy\u2019, \u2018the perfect body\u2019 and \u2018the beautiful mind\u2019; as if the only way to escape judgement and earn dignity as human beings within the margins is to fit into the media and government-approved stories of acceptance and assimilation at the right time, place and age.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Through these pages, we embrace the Meanwhile, and we embrace ourselves to get ready for whatever comes next.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Cynthia Rodr\u00edguez unflinchingly turns a mirror to self, to Britain, what it means to be a migrant, a citizen. Fearful and fearless.<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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DEAN ATTA<\/span><\/div>
Poet and novelist, The Black Flamingo<\/em><\/span><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Rodriguez uses both formidable composition, weaving layer complexity with accessible lyrical language to challenge the approved narrative of what a migrant must do to be accepted, humanising in its approach. Sharp and bright, Meanwhile is a devastatingly moving book I highly recommend.<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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NIKITA GIL<\/span><\/div>
Jhalak Prize #PoetsWeLove<\/span><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Cynthia has a profoundly distinct voice which, coupled with their razor-sharp insightful view of the world has created a beautiful, heart breaking and hilarious collection of poetry.<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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JESS GREEN<\/span><\/div>
Poet and screenwriter, Burning Books, EastEnders <\/span><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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In this confident and important debut, Rodr\u00edguez draws on heritage, culture and politics to sing a \u2018Girl Electric\u2019 \u2013 reframing and reclaiming a range of often marginalised experiences \u2013 to devastating, triumphant and compelling effect.<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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LYDIA TOWSEY<\/span><\/div>
Poet The Venus Papers<\/em><\/span><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Following in the Latin American tradition but (dis)placed in contemporary Britain, Cynthia Rodr\u00edguez cleverly blurs the lines between playful kitsch, deadpan humour and lightning flashes of poetic revelation.<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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JUANA \u00c1DCOCK<\/span><\/div>
Poet and translator I Sugar the Bones<\/em> <\/span><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Buy Meanwhile <\/em>from Burning Eye Books<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Este es un libro sobre estar atrapado en el Mientrastanto. Caminando por viajes aparentemente perpetuos entre fronteras, g\u00e9neros, nacionalidades y estatus social. Como producto de la mezcla de razas, pero […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-no-title","meta":{"_EventAllDay":false,"_EventTimezone":"","_EventStartDate":"","_EventEndDate":"","_EventStartDateUTC":"","_EventEndDateUTC":"","_EventShowMap":false,"_EventShowMapLink":false,"_EventURL":"","_EventCost":"","_EventCostDescription":"","_EventCurrencySymbol":"","_EventCurrencyCode":"","_EventCurrencyPosition":"","_EventDateTimeSeparator":"","_EventTimeRangeSeparator":"","_EventOrganizerID":[],"_EventVenueID":[],"_OrganizerEmail":"","_OrganizerPhone":"","_OrganizerWebsite":"","_VenueAddress":"","_VenueCity":"","_VenueCountry":"","_VenueProvince":"","_VenueState":"","_VenueZip":"","_VenuePhone":"","_VenueURL":"","_VenueStateProvince":"","_VenueLat":"","_VenueLng":"","_VenueShowMap":false,"_VenueShowMapLink":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-4937","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":5534,"url":"https:\/\/cynthiarodriguez.org\/eng\/writing\/","url_meta":{"origin":4937,"position":0},"title":"Creative writing","author":"Cynthia","date":"5 September, 2021","format":false,"excerpt":"Llevo m\u00e1s de diez a\u00f1os escribiendo y compartiendo poes\u00eda, cuento, ensayo, canci\u00f3n y m\u00e1s. 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