Riding with the Diaspora (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9798985524215)

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.

Author: John Palen
ISBN-10: 8985524216
ISBN-13: 9798985524215
Publisher: Sheila-Na-Gig Editions
Language: English
Published: 03/14/2022
Pages: 62
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.18lbs
Size: 8.25h x 5.50w x 0.13d