Ink Knows No Borders: Poems of the Immigrant and Refugee Experience
Edited by Patrice Vecchione and Alyssa Raymond
Booktalk: This collection of sixty-four poems by poets who come from all over the world shares the experience of first- and second-generation young adult immigrants and refugees.
Snippet:
A Hymn to Childhood
Childhood? What childhood?
The one that didn’t last?
The one in which you learned to be afraid
of the boarded-up well in the backyard
and the ladder to the attic.
The one presided over by armed men
in ill-fitting uniforms
strolling the streets and alleys
while loudspeakers proclaimed a new era,
and the house around you grew bigger,
the rooms farther apart, with more and more
people missing?
An excerpt from a poem by Li-Young Lee
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