{"product_id":"border-lines-isbn-9781101908242","title":"Border Lines","description":"\u003cb\u003eIn this remarkable hardcover 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEach year, millions join the ranks of 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBorder 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, \u003ci\u003eBorder Lines\u003c\/i\u003e offers an intimate and uniquely global view of the experience of immigrants in our rapidly changing world.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEveryman's Library pursues the highest production standards, printing on acid-free cream-colored paper, with full-cloth cases with two-color foil stamping, decorative endpapers, silk ribbon markers, European-style half-round spines, and a full-color illustrated jacket.\u003ci\u003eForeword \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eCROSSINGS\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e NEIL AITKEN Outside Plato’s Republic, The Last Poets Wait for Departure\u003cbr\u003e INDRAN AMIRTHANAYAGAM The Migrant’s Reply\u003cbr\u003e MICHAEL BROEK From \u003ci\u003eThe Golden Venture\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e MARCELO HERNANDEZ CASTILLO Immigration Interview with Don Francisco\u003cbr\u003e EDUARDO C. CORRAL Immigration and Naturalization Service Report #46\u003cbr\u003e MAHMOUD DARWISH The Passport\u003cbr\u003e ALEJANDRO ESCOVEDO Wave \u003cbr\u003e LORNA GOODISON Making Life \u003cbr\u003e ANNIE KIM Map of Korea, 1950 \u003cbr\u003e NICK MAKOHA Stone \u003cbr\u003e DUNYA MIKHAIL From \u003ci\u003eThe Iraqi Nights \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e D. NURKSE In the Hold\u003cbr\u003e BAO PHI Adrift \u003cbr\u003e DON SCHOFIELD Migrant Stories \u003cbr\u003e SANDY SOLOMON Political Refugee, One Month On\u003cbr\u003e CATHY SONG Picture Bride \u003cbr\u003e JULES SUPERVIELLE Departure\u003cbr\u003e MAI DER VANG Transmigration \u003cbr\u003e ADAM ZAGAJEWSKI Refugees \u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003ePROMISED LAND\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e JOHN AGARD The Embodiment\u003cbr\u003e AGHA SHAHID ALI Of It All \u003cbr\u003e DREADLOCK ALIEN Fires burn in Bradford, Rockstone fling innah Oldham \u003cbr\u003e MONIZA ALVI Rural Scene \u003cbr\u003e MONA ARSHI The Daughters \u003cbr\u003e RUTH AWAD Town Gossip \u003cbr\u003e JAMES BERRY Roomseeker in London \u003cbr\u003e ANDREE CHEDID My Rediscovered Land\u003cbr\u003e FRED D’AGUIAR Home \u003cbr\u003e GREGORY DJANIKIAN When I First Saw Snow \u003cbr\u003e BERNADINE EVARISTO From \u003ci\u003eLara \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e MARISA FRASCA Anise Seed\u003cbr\u003e RAY GONZALEZ Was Federico Garcia Lorca Lonely in New York? \u003cbr\u003e MAGGIE HARRIS Llamas, Cwmpengraig\u003cbr\u003e WILLIAM HEYEN A Snapshot of My Father, 1928 \u003cbr\u003e ROLANDO KATTAN The Pineapple Tree\u003cbr\u003e CHRISTINE KITANO For the Korean Grandmother on Sunset Boulevard\u003cbr\u003e TATO LAVIERA AmeRican \u003cbr\u003e JACK MAPANJE After Celebrating Our Asylum Stories at West Yorkshire Playhouse, Leeds \u003cbr\u003e KEI MILLER The only thing far away \u003cbr\u003e AIMEE NEZHUKUMATATHIL Fishbone\u003cbr\u003e RUTH PADEL The Prayer Labyrinth\u003cbr\u003e SHAMPA RAY My India\u003cbr\u003e WARSAN SHIRE Midnight in the Foreign Food Aisle \u003cbr\u003e CHARLES SIMIC Explorers\u003cbr\u003e CARMEN GIMENEZ SMITH Southern Cone \u003cbr\u003e R.A. VILLANUEVA In Memory of Xiong Huang \u003cbr\u003e JUDITH VOLLMER Mała Babka Pays an Evening Visit, Rolls Down Her Stockings and Looks Around \u003cbr\u003e PATRICIA JABBEH WESLEY Poem Written from a Single Snapshot \u003cbr\u003e JENNY XIE Naturalization \u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eMOTHERLAND\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e DILRUBA AHMED Dear Masoom \u003cbr\u003e KAZIM ALI Ursa Major \u003cbr\u003e HADARA BARNADAV Chest \u003cbr\u003e KAMAU BRATHWAITE From \u003ci\u003eGuanahani \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e RAFAEL CAMPO My Voice \u003cbr\u003e IMTIAZ DHARKER How to cut a pomegranate\u003cbr\u003e ARACELIS GIRMAY The Fig Eaters, Fifth Estrangement \u003cbr\u003e LORRAINE HEALY The country I flee from daily\u003cbr\u003e ALLISON JOSEPH Immigrants  \u003cbr\u003e JACKIE KAY In my country \u003cbr\u003e SHARA MCCALLUM Psalm for Kingston\u003cbr\u003e RO MEHROOZ Broken Mirror \u003cbr\u003e VALZHYNA MORT Belarusian I \u003cbr\u003e WIDAD NABI The Place Is Lit with Memory \u003cbr\u003e PETER ORESICK Ruthenia \u003cbr\u003e ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER Guyana: So Nice \u003cbr\u003e ROGER SEDARAT Dear Regime,\u003cbr\u003e JACOB SHORESARGUELLO Workshop \u003cbr\u003e MARIANA SIERRA Mangoes at Kroger\u003cbr\u003e GERALD STERN The Dancing\u003cbr\u003e FADWA SULEIMAN Laurel \u003cbr\u003e DEREK WALCOTT Sea Grapes \u003cbr\u003e SHOLEH WOLPE 4th Movement \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eLABOR\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e LORY BEDIKIAN The Mechanic \u003cbr\u003e KATHY ENGEL What could the title possibly be\u003cbr\u003e TARFIA FAIZULLAH To the Bangladeshi Cab Driver in San Francisco \u003cbr\u003e CARMEN FIRAN How I Am \u003cbr\u003e KIMIKO HAHN A Flushing Villanelle\u003cbr\u003e HA JIN Bargain\u003cbr\u003e HEDI KADDOUR The Night Watchman\u003cbr\u003e PHILIP LEVINE On the Birth of Good \u0026amp; Evil During the Long Winter of ’28 \u003cbr\u003e SHIRLEY GEOKLIN LIM Starlight Haven \u003cbr\u003e ADA LIMON The Contract Says: We’d Like the Conversation to Be Bilingual \u003cbr\u003e ADRIAN SANGEORZAN Underground Pearls\u003cbr\u003e GARY SOTO Mexicans Begin Jogging\u003cbr\u003e ADRIENNE SU Peaches \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eLANGUAGE\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e KAVEH AKBAR Do You Speak Persian? \u003cbr\u003e SHAUNA BARBOSA Broke \u003cbr\u003e LAUREANNE BOSSELAAR English Flavors \u003cbr\u003e CHRISTIAN CAMPBELL Iguana \u003cbr\u003e MARY JEAN CHAN Rules for a Chinese Child Buying Stationery in a London Bookshop \u003cbr\u003e ANDREI CODRESCU \u003ci\u003eah, ach, vai bilingvism \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e INUA ELLAMS GuerillaGardenWritingPoem \u003cbr\u003e RHINA P. ESPAILLAT Bilingual\/Bilingue \u003cbr\u003e JAWDAT FAKHREDDINE Land \u003cbr\u003e ALBERT GOLDBARTH \u003ci\u003eShoyn Fergéssin\u003c\/i\u003e: “I’ve Forgotten” in Yiddish\u003cbr\u003e JANINE JOSEPH Assimilation\u003cbr\u003e ILYA KAMINSKY Elegy for Joseph Brodsky\u003cbr\u003e LI-YOUNG LEE Persimmons\u003cbr\u003e ESTHER LIN Illegal Immigration \u003cbr\u003e J. MICHAEL MARTINEZ Lord, Spanglish Me \u003cbr\u003e CZESLAW MILOSZ My Faithful Mother Tongue\u003cbr\u003e NAOMI SHIHAB NYE Arabic \u003cbr\u003e OMAR SAKR Where I Am Not \u003cbr\u003e OCEAN VUONG The Gift\u003cbr\u003e ARNE WEINGART Born in Hungarian \u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eCOMMUNITY\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e JIMMY SANTIAGO BACA Green Chile\u003cbr\u003e ROBERT BLY The Russian \u003cbr\u003e KWAME DAWES A Way of Seeing\u003cbr\u003e ROMESH GUNESEKERA Turning Point\u003cbr\u003e ROBERT HEDIN The Old Scandinavians\u003cbr\u003e JUAN FELIPE HERRERA Half-Mexican\u003cbr\u003e ZAFFAR KUNIAL Us \u003cbr\u003e KHALED MATTAWA In the Glorious Yemen Restaurant \u003cbr\u003e CLAUDE MCKAY The Harlem Dancer\u003cbr\u003e YESENIA MONTILLA Maps\u003cbr\u003e DZVINIA ORLOWSKY When First Stars Appear \u003cbr\u003e ALBERTO RIOS Border Lines \u003cbr\u003e IRA SADOFF Nazis \u003cbr\u003e CLAUDIA SEREA At Deb’s Party \u003cbr\u003e RUTH KNAFO SETTON My Father Eats Figs \u003cbr\u003e SUSAN TERRIS Great Grandfathers from Szumsk Offer Advice to My Children \u003cbr\u003e REETIKA VAZIRANI Daughter-Mother-Maya-SeetaMICHAEL WATERS is the author of numerous poetry collections, including the \u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times\u003c\/i\u003e Book Prize finalist \u003ci\u003eDarling Vulgarity \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eParthenopi: New and Selected Poems\u003c\/i\u003e. His honors include fellowships from the Fulbright Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Guggenheim Foundation, and five Pushcart Prizes. Waters teaches at Monmouth University and Drew University. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMIHAELA MOSCALIUC is the author of the poetry collections \u003ci\u003eImmigrant Model\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eFather Dirt\u003c\/i\u003e. An associate professor at Monmouth University, she has published scholarship in the field of Romani (Gypsy) studies and is the recipient of two Glenna Luschei Awards from \u003ci\u003ePrairie Schooner,\u003c\/i\u003e residency fellowships from The Virginia Center for the Creative Arts and Le Chateau de Lavigny, an Individual Artist Fellowship from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts, and a Fulbright fellowship to Romania.FOREWORD\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe movement of peoples from one space to another, sometimes forcibly, as with the Middle Passage and the Trail of Tears, or courageously and voluntarily, as with the great migrations from Eastern Europe, Asia, and, more recently, Africa and Latin America to the United States and Western Europe, has been accompanied by immeasurable emotional and psychological displacements. Where is home? Is it the motherland, the left-behind world of birthplace and ancestry, or is it the strange but fresh landscape of possibility and promise? Which language articulates the private self, which the public? More recently, driven by war, poverty, and multiple forms of oppression, contexts shaped significantly by First World politics and interests, African and Middle Eastern peoples have risked their lives to touch the European continent, while Central Americans have journeyed north, all intent on crossing borders – pocked and cratered terrains, guarded rivers, dangerous and indifferent seas and oceans – toward more secure lives for themselves and their children. What is the cost of such unwilling or hopeful migration? “By the rivers of Babylon we sat and wept when we remembered Zion,” writes the anonymous poet of Psalm 137.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThroughout the long history of these arduous journeys, poets have given voice to those who experience shifts of language and consciousness, spiritual deprivation and renewal, familial separation and reunion,and adaptation to being strangers in a strange land. André Aciman states, “Each one of us is a dislodged citizen of a country that was never really his, but that he has learned to long for and cannot forget. The fault lines of exile and diaspora always run deep, and we are always from elsewhere, and from elsewhere before that.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIt’s those aspects of elsewhere, physical and imagined, as well as the more concrete (literally andfiguratively) aspects of the here and now, that the poets in this anthology explore and engage. More than one hundred poets from a wide range of cultural backgrounds deepen into personal stories of displacement, of migration and exile, and of past language and tradition set against the dissonances and unrecognizable rituals of cultures sometimes welcoming, often fearful or antagonistic. The process of (at times reluctant) assimilation is recorded in these poems through the smallest details, through the ordinary progressions of a life – its loves and labors – which take on significance as meanings of identity, of national and global citizenship, reconstruct themselves.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“How can we sing the songs of the Lord while in a foreign land?” asks the anonymous poet. The poets in this anthology attempt such songs, not only of the Lord in various guises, but also of themselves and their families, their loved ones past and present, their languages and lives, all toward defining, in more encompassing terms, migration as disruptive, wondrous, challenging, desperate, ecstatic, and – not least of all – reinventive.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e--Mihaela Moscaliuc and Michael Waters","brand":"Everyman's Library","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46302030430437,"sku":"NP9781101908242","price":14.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781101908242.jpg?v=1767722957","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/border-lines-isbn-9781101908242","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}