Barbed Wire Between Us (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781636551920)

A powerful reverso poem about two girls separated by barbed wire and 80 years of history

Barbed Wire Between Us is a powerful reverso poem that tells two deeply resonant stories across time. It begins with a Japanese American girl sent to an internment camp in Oklahoma during World War II. Read in reverse, it reveals the journey of a Latina girl detained in the very same camp decades later, during the U.S. policy of migrant family separation. Harrowing and emotionally charged, this poetic narrative compels us to confront a haunting question: What have we truly learned in the past 80 years about how we treat the most vulnerable among us? With haunting symmetry and striking parallels, Barbed Wire Between Us is a moving meditation on justice, memory, and the echoes of history that still shape our present.

Author: Mia Wenjen
ISBN-10: 1636551920
ISBN-13: 9781636551920
Publisher: Red Comet Press
Language: English
Published: 03/31/2026
Pages: 48
Format: Hardcover