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Author
Pub. Date
c2021.
Physical Desc
95 pages ; 22 cm
Description
Motivated by his sense of the oneness of humanity, and curious to experience its diversity, he left his home in the mountains of Virginia, emigrating to Brasília, Brazil, where he taught for nine years at Escola das Nações, the School of the Nations. These poems, written in a variety of traditional forms but in an accessible, even conversational style, reflect the emotional outpouring released by his emigration-- the anguish of leaving family and...
Pub. Date
c2009
Physical Desc
39 p. : ill. ; 17 cm.
Description
"For their final project, the students of the High Tech High freshman Spanish classes explored the them of "cruzando fronteras" (crossing borders) through spoken workd poetry and artwork. This anthology is a selection of poetry and art which was compiled to showcase their work."
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
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Formats
Description
"In this collection of poems, written during and immediately after two years on the road as United States Poet Laureate, Juan Felipe Herrera reports back on his travels through contemporary America. Poems written in the heat of witness, and later, in quiet moments of reflection, coalesce into an urgent, trenchant, and yet hope-filled portrait. The struggle and pain of those pushed to the edges, the shootings and assaults and injustices of our streets,...
Author
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
131 pages : illustration, map ; 23 cm.
Description
"In Invasive species, Marwa Helal's searing politically charged poems touch on our collective humanity and build new pathways for empathy, etching themselves into memory. This work centers on urgent themes in our cultural landscape, creating space for unseen victims of discriminatory foreign (read: immigration) policy: migrants, refugees--the displaced. Helal transfers lived experiences of dislocation and relocation onto the reader by obscuring borders...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
xiii, 78 pages ; 24 cm.
Description
"What Noise Against the Cane" is a lyric quest for belonging and freedom, weaving political resistance, Caribbean folklore, immigration and the realities of Black life in America. Desiree C. Bailey begins by reworking the epic in an oceanic narrative of bondage and liberation in the midst of the Haitian Revolution. The poems move into the contemporary Black diaspora, probing the mythologies of home, belief, nation and womanhood. Series judge Carl...
Series
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
xvii, 197 pages ; 23 cm.
Description
"The book is a timely response via verse to the current political climate of Arizona, though what it ultimately argues is that these injustices have always been taking place: SB 1070 is simply its most recent manifestation"--Provided by publisher.
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 31 cm.
Description
"Originally published in French as Bagages, Carry On began in a high school in Outremont, Quebec, where author and poet Simon Boulerice conducted creative-writing workshops for young newcomers to Canada. As the students began writing, their poems gave voice to their reflections on leaving family, friends, and countries of origin to make new homes and connections in Canada. Boulerice collected several of the students' poems to create this anthology....
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
111 pages : illustrations, 1 map ; 23 cm
Description
"This novel in verse is a powerful first-person account of Misael Martínez, a Salvadoran boy whose family joins the caravan heading north to the United States. We learn all the different reasons why people feel the need to leave -- the hope that lies behind their decision, but also the terrible sadness of leaving home. We learn about how far and hard the trip is, but also about the kindness of those along the way. Finally, once the caravan arrives...



