{"product_id":"refugee-erika-michael-9798899902376","title":"Refugee","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn \u003cstrong\u003eErika Michael\u003c\/strong\u003e's impressive book \u003cem\u003eRefugee, \u003c\/em\u003e she does more than memorialize her family's persecution in Austria for their Jewish faith. While Refugee shows the tremendous loss, brutality, and injustice of it all-the poems also bear witness to moments of resilience and joy. While the book itself raises questions of memories and their allusiveness, what is never in question is the truth of feeling surrounding those memories. \u003cem\u003eRefugee \u003c\/em\u003eblends oral history, songs, and family archival detail to such a degree that readers will feel transported to the locale of each poem. The result is a tremendous accomplishment of faith, memory, and lyricism. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e-Charlotte Pence, Mobile Poet Laureate and author of \u003cem\u003eCode \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eErika Michael\u003c\/strong\u003e's \u003cem\u003eRefugee \u003c\/em\u003eushers us into a Jewish early childhood in Vienna as the Third Reich rises and takes hold. Her poems then carry us west to new beginnings that millions would never access. We're drawn, by her pulsing music of necessity, on through a life imbued with gratitude and a keen feeling of the miraculous. The senses are alive in these poems of moments that might easily have never been.\u003cem\u003e Refugee\u003c\/em\u003e bristles with the utter unlikelihood of a family's American life. \u003cstrong\u003eErika Michael\u003c\/strong\u003e, \"shabby kid with memories of flight,\" renders a destroyed world breathing, laughing, murmuring prayers passed down centuries...reminding us love survives the forces of annihilation. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e-\u003c\/strong\u003eJed Myers, author of \u003cem\u003eLearning to Hold \u003c\/em\u003eand \u003cem\u003eThe Marriage of Space and Time\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Erika Michael\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798899902376\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Finishing Line Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/31\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 74\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.25lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.18d","brand":"Erika Michael","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48437575680255,"sku":"9798899902376","price":22.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_fc932e40-4740-45c1-9a4d-fb5f2ccee27e.jpg?v=1777162668","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/refugee-erika-michael-9798899902376","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}