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Bezig met laden... Posada: Offerings of Witness and Refuge (editie 2016)door Xochitl-Julisa Bermejo (Auteur)
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Posada: Offerings of Witness and Refuge is a feminist collection of poetry straddling borders, and arose when daughter of Mexican immigrants, Xochitl-Julisa Bermejo, traveled from Los Angeles to the Tucson-Sector of the U.S.-Mexico border in August 2011 to volunteer with the humanitarian aid organization, No More Deaths. She hoped to gain a concrete understanding of the "wall," and the result was a book illustrating a speaker driven to activism by a need to honor her family's journey. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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The collection is all about immigration, and as such, there are a few people in whose hands I'd like to foist this in. It starts out with poems about her family living in Los Angeles, telling stories of her relatives' immigrant experiences and how they have and do shape their lives. Then the collection shifts hard to modern immigration, and the poems are about Bermejo's experience volunteering in the desert with the group No More Deaths -- a humanitarian organization that seeks to stop the deaths of migrants in the desert by leaving water and supplies on the trails, and sometimes providing emergency first aid. This shift in focus is abrupt, and could be more integrated, but the poems in both sections are strong.
My favorites were "My Mother's History, or Pieces I've Gathered So Far," and the "Did You Know?" poems. ( )