Borders Poetry

Author : Patrice Vecchione,Alyssa Raymond
Publisher : Seven Stories Press
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2019-03-12
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9781609809089

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Ink Knows No Borders by Patrice Vecchione,Alyssa Raymond Pdf

A poetry collection for young adults brings together some of the most compelling and vibrant voices today reflecting the experiences of teen immigrants and refugees. With authenticity, integrity, and insight, this collection of poems addresses the many issues confronting first- and second- generation young adult immigrants and refugees, such as cultural and language differences, homesickness, social exclusion, human rights, racism, stereotyping, and questions of identity. Poems by Elizabeth Acevedo, Erika L. Sánchez, Samira Ahmed, Chen Chen, Ocean Vuong, Fatimah Asghar, Carlos Andrés Gómez, Bao Phi, Kaveh Akbar, Hala Alyan, and Ada Limón, among others, encourage readers to honor their roots as well as explore new paths, offering empathy and hope for those who are struggling to overcome discrimination. Many of the struggles immigrant and refugee teens face head-on are also experienced by young people everywhere as they contend with isolation, self-doubt, confusion, and emotional dislocation. Ink Knows No Borders is the first book of its kind and features 65 poems and a foreword by poet Javier Zamora, who crossed the border, unaccompanied, at the age of nine, and an afterword by Emtithal Mahmoud, World Poetry Slam Champion and Honorary Goodwill Ambassador for UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency. Brief biographies of the poets are included, as well. It's a hopeful, beautiful, and meaningful book for any reader.

Author : Lalita Pandit Hogan
Publisher : 2Leaf Press
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2017-10-30
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781940939582

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A Country Without Borders by Lalita Pandit Hogan Pdf

A COUNTRY WITHOUT BORDERS, POEMS AND STORIES OF KASHMIR is the debut collection of Lalita Pandit Hogan, an expatriate Kashmiri scholar and poet who shares with readers the loss of identity and home, culture, migration, womanhood, otherness and exile. Blooming with intense lyricism and fertile imagery, these full-blooded poems are elegant, mythic, and intricately woven, evoking a home no longer accessible. A COUNTRY WITHOUT BORDERS is an invaluable collection for all who are interested in cultural remembrance and meditations that reflect postcolonial poetry, and to students reading South Asian literature and culture.

Author : Jared Hawkley,Susan Rich,Brian Turner,Catherine Barnett
Publisher : McSweeney's
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 1938073266

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The Strangest of Theatres by Jared Hawkley,Susan Rich,Brian Turner,Catherine Barnett Pdf

"A copublication of The Poetry Foundation and McSweeney's Publishing"--T.p. verso.

Author : John Veitch
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 394 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1893
Category : Ballads, Scots
ISBN : NYPL:33433081859112

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The History and Poetry of the Scottish Border by John Veitch Pdf

Author : John Veitch
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1893
Category : Scottish poetry
ISBN : HARVARD:HX15MR

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The History and Poetry of the Scottish Border: Thier Main Features and Relations by John Veitch Pdf

Author : Pat Mora
Publisher : Arte Publico Press
Page : 92 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1986-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1611920752

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Borders by Pat Mora Pdf

"In Borders, Mora explores the political, cultural, social, and emotional borders that divide people, forming their individual identities."--Publisher.

Author : Mihaela Moscaliuc,Michael Waters
Publisher : Everyman's Library
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2020-09-08
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781101908242

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Border Lines by Mihaela Moscaliuc,Michael Waters Pdf

In this remarkable collection—the first of its kind—poets from around the world give eloquent voice to the trials, hopes, rewards, and losses of the experience of migration. Each year, millions join the ranks of intrepid migrants who have reshaped societies throughout history. The movement of peoples across borders—whether forcible, as with the Middle Passage and the Trail of Tears, or voluntary, as with the great migrations from Europe, Asia, Africa, and Latin America to the United States and Western Europe—brings with it emotional and psychological dislocations. More recently, African and Middle Eastern peoples have risked their lives to reach safety in Europe, while Central Americans have fled north. Whatever their circumstances, these travelers share the challenge of adapting to being strangers in a strange land. Border Lines brings together more than a hundred poets representing more than sixty nationalities, including Mahmoud Darwish, Czeslaw Milosz, Aimee Nezhukumatathil, Ruth Padel, Warsan Shire, Derek Walcott, and Ocean Vuong. Their poems offer moving stories of displacement and new beginnings in such places as France, Germany, Canada, the United Kingdom, and the United States. A monument to courage and resilience, Border Lines offers an intimate and uniquely global view of the experience of immigrants in our rapidly changing world.

Author : Islam Issa,Angelica Duran
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 465 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2024-02-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780192844743

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Milton Across Borders and Media by Islam Issa,Angelica Duran Pdf

This edited volume explores the combination of cultural phenomena that have established and canonized the work of John Milton in a global context, from interlingual translations to representations of Milton's work in verbal media, painting, stained glass, dance, opera, and symphony.

Author : Walter M. Cummins
Publisher : Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
Page : 500 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 0838634974

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Shifting Borders by Walter M. Cummins Pdf

Although their subjects, styles, and techniques often differ, in total these poems make clear the distinctions between the nature of poetry in Eastern Europe and that in the West. While several of the languages represented here are limited to a small number of speakers, each has a commitment to the central role of poetry in the history of its people and as a source of their unity.

Author : Mary Crow
Publisher : New Poets of America
Page : 80 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : UOM:39015018501141

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Borders by Mary Crow Pdf

"The poetry of Mary Crow is as we would expect of an artist deeply troubled by her experiences. The writing is taut, lean with the struggle to persevere and become its own true cause; and by the grace and the power of her art, the poems in Borders are kept from vanishing into the pain itself, thereby making a voice and presence for herself that is the fulfillment of her search for self. In short, she is the quintessential artist who is made whole by the very processes of art. Let us welcome Mary Crow to the company of poets."-- David Ignatow

Author : Javier Zamora
Publisher : Copper Canyon Press
Page : 118 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2018-05-01
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781619321779

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Unaccompanied by Javier Zamora Pdf

New York Times Bestselling Author of Solito "Every line resonates with a wind that crosses oceans."—Jamaal May "Zamora's work is real life turned into myth and myth made real life." —Glappitnova Javier Zamora was nine years old when he traveled unaccompanied 4,000 miles, across multiple borders, from El Salvador to the United States to be reunited with his parents. This dramatic and hope-filled poetry debut humanizes the highly charged and polarizing rhetoric of border-crossing; assesses borderland politics, race, and immigration on a profoundly personal level; and simultaneously remembers and imagines a birth country that's been left behind. Through an unflinching gaze, plainspoken diction, and a combination of Spanish and English, Unaccompanied crosses rugged terrain where families are lost and reunited, coyotes lead migrants astray, and "the thin white man let us drink from a hose / while pointing his shotgun." From "Let Me Try Again": He knew we weren't Mexican. He must've remembered his family coming over the border, or the border coming over them, because he drove us to the border and told us next time, rest at least five days, don't trust anyone calling themselves coyotes, bring more tortillas, sardines, Alhambra. He knew we would try again. And again—like everyone does. Javier Zamora was born in El Salvador and immigrated to the United States at the age of nine. He earned a BA at UC-Berkeley, an MFA at New York University, and is a 2016–2018 Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford University.

Author : Katya Hokanson
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2008-09-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781442691810

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Writing at Russia's Borders by Katya Hokanson Pdf

It is often assumed that cultural identity is determined in a country’s metropolitan centres. Given Russia’s long tenure as a geographically and socially diverse empire, however, there is a certain distillation of peripheral experiences and ideas that contributes just as much to theories of national culture as do urban-centred perspectives. Writing at Russia’s Border argues that Russian literature needs to be reexamined in light of the fact that many of its most important nineteenth-century texts are peripheral, not in significance but in provenance. Katya Hokanson makes the case that the fluid and ever-changing cultural and linguistic boundaries of Russia’s border regions profoundly influenced the nation’s literature, posing challenges to stereotypical or territorially based conceptions of Russia’s imperial, military, and cultural identity. A highly canonical text such as Pushkin’s Eugene Onegin (1831), which is set in European Russia, is no less dependent on the perspectives of those living at the edges of the Russian Empire than is Tolstoy’s The Cossacks (1863), which is explicitly set on Russia’s border and has become central to the Russian canon. Hokanson cites the influence of these and other ‘peripheral’ texts as proof that Russia’s national identity was dependent upon the experiences of people living in the border areas of an expanding empire. Produced at a cultural moment of contrast and exchange, the literature of the periphery represented a negotiation of different views of Russian identity, an ingredient that was ultimately essential even to literature produced in the major cities. Writing at Russia’s Border upends popular ideas of national cultural production and is a fascinating study of the social implications of nineteenth-century Russian literature.

Author : Richard Pine,Vera Konidari
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2021-03-10
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781527567313

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Borders and Borderlands by Richard Pine,Vera Konidari Pdf

The crossing of borders and frontiers between political states and between languages and cultures continues to inhibit and bedevil the freedom of movement of both ideas and people. This book addresses the issues arising from problems of translation and communication, the understanding of identity in hyphenated cultures, the relationship between landscape and character, and the multiplex topic of gender transition. Literature as a key to identity in borderland situations is explored here, together with analyses of semiotics, narratives of madness and abjection. The volume also examines the contemporary refugee crisis through first-hand “Personal Witness” accounts of migration, and political, ethnic and religious divisions in Kosovo, Greece, Portugal and North America. Another section, gathering together historical and current “Poetry of Exile”, offers poets’ perspectives on identity and tradition in the context of loss, alienation, fear and displacement.

Author : D. Nurkse
Publisher : Knopf
Page : 113 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2018-06-05
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780375711633

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The Border Kingdom by D. Nurkse Pdf

From the award-winning poet: a powerful collection that explores the biblical past and the terrifying politics of the present, the legacy of fathers and the flawed kingdoms they leave their sons. Now in paperback. In "Ben Adan," a stunning poem in the opening sequence of the collection, we witness the drama between a captor and the prisoner commanded to dig his own grave ("perhaps in a moment / he will lift me up / and hold me trembling, / more scared than I / and more relieved"). "After a Bombing" examines children's drawings as deep symbolic reactions to 9/11. The subtly majestic "Lament for the Makers of Brooklyn" builds the poignant case for a lost world: "Where is Policastro the locksmith now?" the poet asks. "Half-blind, he wore two pairs of glasses / held together by duct tape, / . . . / afterward the key turned / for you but not for me." In exploring the small empires of human conflict, which expand in all directions, Nurkse is attuned to the scraps of beauty or insight that marginal characters and corners of the world might offer up in the midst of moral darkness. With The Border Kingdom, he has given us a collection unfailingly rich in imagery, undaunted in subject and spirit.

Author : Adam Bednarczyk,Magdalena Kubarek,Maciej Szatkowski
Publisher : Vernon Press
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2019-01-25
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781622735440

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Borders and Beyond: Orient-Occident Crossings in Literature by Adam Bednarczyk,Magdalena Kubarek,Maciej Szatkowski Pdf

The work presents articles discussing various subjects relating to literary, cultural borders and borderlands as well as their crossings with the Orient and the Occident. A broad, multifaceted scope of the volume draws the attention of readers to the problem of liminal spaces between cultures, genres, codes and languages of literary and artistic communication. The perspective of borderness proposed by orientalists, literary specialists, culture experts provide insights into multi-dimensional and heterogenic subjects and methods of consideration. The authors referring to, inter alia, comparative studies, theory of reception, intertextuality, transculturality of the East and West works touch upon themes such as coexistence, exclusion, crossing or the instability of borders. Also by taking into account identity issues, the interpenetration of various influences between different literatures, poetics and languages, the readers gain a broader context of intercultural dialogue between the Orient and Occident, what allow them to transgress barriers of a purely artistic, literary reception of the book contents. The volume – due to the abundance of proposed topics, its heterogeneous representations and manifold approaches used in analysis, discussion and (re)interpretations – is a debate’s record or a result of an academic reflection rather than a comprehensive monograph.