Border Lines

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The first of its kind--a Pocket Poet collection of poems from around the world and through the ages by and about refugees, immigrants, and exiles."By the rivers of Babylon we sat and wept when we remembered Zion, " writes the anonymous poet of Psalm 137. Throughout history, poets have given voice to those who have had to adapt to being strangers in a strange land. The movement of peoples--whether forcibly, as with the Middle Passage and the Trail of Tears, or courageously and voluntarily, as with the great migrations from Eastern Europe, Asia, Africa, and Latin America to the United States and Western Europe--has been accompanied by immeasurable emotional and psychological displacements. More recently, African and Middle Eastern peoples have risked their lives to reach the Europe, while fear-driven Central Americans have journeyed north intent on crossing borders. In this collection, more than a hundred poets from a wide range of cultural backgrounds lyrically express personal stories of displacement, of the dissonance, challenges, rewards, and losses of immigration and exile.