Migrant Psalms: Poems Holnes Darrel Alejandro
Migrant Psalms prays for a way to make sense of immigration to the United States--now that we realize the American Dream was always an impossible one. Both reverent and daring, this verse interrogates…
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Migrant Psalms prays for a way to make sense of immigration to the United States--now that we realize the American Dream was always an impossible one. Both reverent and daring, this verse interrogates religion, race, class, family, and sexuality. Written as a call to action, the collection pulls together prayer, popular culture, and technology to tell a twenty-first-century migrant story.Migrant Psalms gives us a rare look inside a Panamanian experience of migration, describing the harsh realities of mothers, children, and teens who entered the United States--or tried to do so. Holnes's poems find the universal through specificity; their exploration of expatriation, assimilation, and naturalization transcends the author's personal experience to speak to what it means to be "other" anywhere.The collection begins with "Kyrie," a coming-to-America chronicle that
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