Border lines : poems of migration / edited by Mihaela Moscaliuc and Michael Waters.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Moscaliuc, Mihaela, 1972- editor.

Waters, Michael, 1949- editor.

Series:

Everyman's library pocket poets

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Emigration and immigration--Poetry.

Emigration and immigration.

Immigrants--Poetry.

Immigrants.

Genre:

Poetry.

Physical Description:

256 pages ; 17 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2020.

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: CROSSINGS

Outside Plato's Republic, The Last Poets Wait for Departure / Neil Aitken

The Migrant's Reply / Indran Amirthanayagam

From The Golden Venture / Michael Broek

Immigration Interview with Don Francisco / Marcelo Hernandez Castillo

Immigration and Naturalization Service Report #46 / Eduardo C. Corral

The Passport / Mahmoud Darwish

Wave / Alejandro Escovedo

Making Life / Lorna Goodison

Map of Korea, 1950 / Annie Kim

Stone / Nick Makoha

From The Iraqi Nights / Dunya Mikhail

In the Hold / D. Nurkse

Adrift / Bao Phi

Migrant Stories / Don Schoeield

Political Refugee, One Month On / Sandy Solomon

Picture Bride / Cathy Song

Departure / Jules Supervielle

Transmigration / Mai Der Vang

Refugees / Adam Zagajewski

PROMISED LAND

The Embodiment / John Agard

Of It All / Agha Shahid Ali

Fires burn in Bradford, Rockstone fling innah Oldham / Dreadlock Alien

Rural Scene / Moniza Alvi

The Daughters / Mona Arshi

Town Gossip / Ruth Awad

Roomseeker in London / James Berry

My Rediscovered Land / Andree Chedid

Home / Fred D'Aguiar

When I First Saw Snow / Gregory Djanikian

From Lara / Bernadine Evaristo

Anise Seed / Marisa Frasca

Was Federico Garcia Lorca Lonely in New York? / Ray Gonzalez

Llamas, Cwmpengraig / Maggie Harris

A Snapshot of My Father, 1928 / William Heyen

The Pineapple Tree / Rolando Kattan

For the Korean Grandmother on Sunset Boulevard / Christine Kitano

AmeRican / Tato Laviera

After Celebrating Our Asylum Stories at West Yorkshire Playhouse, Leeds / Jack Mapanje

The only thing far away / Kei Miller

Fishbone / Aimee Nezhukumatathil

The Prayer Labyrinth / Ruth Padel

My India / Shampa Ray

Midnight in the Foreign Food Aisle / Warsan Shire

Explorers / Charles Simic

Southern Cone / Carmen Gimenez Smith

In Memory of Xiong Huang / R.A. Villanueva

Mala Babka Pays an Evening Visit, Rolls Down Her Stockings and Looks Around / Judith Vollmer

Poem Written from a Single Snapshot / Patricia Jabbeh Wesley

Naturalization / Jenny Xie

MOTHERLAND

Dear Masoom / Dilruba Ahmed

Ursa Major / Kazim Ali

Chest / Hadara Bar-Nadav

From Guanahani / Kamau Brathwaite

My Voice / Rafael Campo

How to cut a pomegranate / Imtiaz Dharker

The Fig Eaters, Fifth Estrangement / Aracelis Girmay

The country I flee from daily / Lorraine Healyc

Immigrants / Allison Joseph

In my country / Jackie Kay

Psalm for Kingston / Shara Mccallum

Broken Mirror / Ro Mehrooz

Belarusian I / Valzhyna Mort

The Place Is Lit with Memory / Widad Nabi

Ruthenia / Peter Oresick

Guyana: So Nice / Alicia Suskin Ostriker

Dear Regime / Roger Sedarat

Workshop / Jacob Shores-Argoello

Mangoes at Kroger / Mariana Sierra

The Dancing / Gerald Stern

Laurel / Fadwa Suleiman

Sea Grapes / Derek Walcott

4th Movement / Sholeh Wolpe

LABOR

The Mechanic / Lory Bedikian

What could the title possibly be / Kathy Engel

To the Bangladeshi Cab Driver in San Francisco / Tarfia Faizullah

How I Am / Carmen Firan

A Flushing Villanelle / Kimiko Hahn

Bargain / Ha Jin

The Night Watchman / Hedi Kaddour

On the Birth of Good & Evil During the Long Winter of `28 / Philip Levine

Starlight Haven / Shirley Geok-Lin Lim

The Contract Says: We'd Like the Conversation to Be Bilingual / Ada Limon

Underground Pearls / Adrian Sangeorzan

Mexicans Begin Jogging / Gary Soto

Peaches / Adrienne Su

LANGUAGE

Do You Speak Persian? / Kaveh Akbar

Broke / Shauna Barbosa

English Flavors / Laure-Anne Bosselaar

Iguana / Christian Campbell

Rules for a Chinese Child Buying Stationery in a London Bookshop / Mary Jean Chan

ah, ach, vai bilingvism / Andrei Codrescu

GuerillaGardenWritingPoem / Inua Ellams

Bilingual/Bilingiie / Rhina P. Espaillat

Land / Jawdat Fakhreddine

Shoyn Fergessin: "I've Forgotten" in Yiddish / Albert Goldbarth

Assimilation / Janine Joseph

Elegy for Joseph Brodsky / Ilya Kaminsky

Persimmons / Li-Young Lee

Illegal Immigration / Esther Lin

Martinez Lord, Spanglish Me / J. Michael

My Faithful Mother Tongue / Czeslaw Milosz

Arabic / Naomi Shihab Nye

Where I Am Not / Omar Sakr

The Gift / Ocean Vuong

Born in Hungarian / Arne Weingart

COMMUNITY

Green Chile / Jimmy Santiago Baca

The Russian / Robert Bly

A Way of Seeing / Kwame Dawes

Turning Point / Romesh Gunesekera

The Old Scandinavians / Robert Hedin

Half-Mexican / Juan Felipe Herrera

Us / Zaffar Kunial

In the Glorious Yemen Restaurant / Khaled Mattawa

The Harlem Dancer / Claude Mckay

Maps / Yesenia Montilla

When First Stars Appear / Dzvinia Orlowsky

Border Lines / Alberto Rfos

Nazis / Ira Sadoff

At Deb's Party / Claudia Serea

My Father Eats Figs / Ruth Knafo Setton

Great Grandfathers from Szumsk Offer Advice to My Children / Susan Terris

Daughter-Mother-Maya-Seeta / Reetika Vazirani.

Notes:

"This is a Borzoi book" -- Title page verso.

ISBN:

9781101908242

1101908246

OCLC:

1198449425

Publisher Number:

99987065279