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    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

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Riding with the Diaspora

Riding with the Diaspora

Palen, John
Haugen, Hayley

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General Poetry

ISBN13: 9798985524215
Publisher: Newtype Pub
Published: Mar 14 2022
Pages: 62
Weight: 0.18
Height: 0.13 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.25
Language: English
The title poem of Riding With the Diaspora doesn't come until the end, but facets of the diaspora experience - scattering, displacement, migration, homesickness, alienation, otherness -build toward it throughout. Here are poems about displaced indigenous Americans and their migrant European displacers; descendants of enslaved Africans and refugees from Nazism; the poor, the elderly and the ill, alienated from society and their own bodies; conflicted products of small-town upbringings; even seeds and microbes, scattered westward across the plains with the unsettling settlers of American expansion. These provide a unifying theme - one which also offers moments of reconciliation and grace - to a book of solidly crafted, humane and powerful poems.

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