Crosslight for Young Bird

by Asiya Wadud

Book Overview

FINALIST FOR THE 2019 HURSTON/WRIGHT AWARD

An urgent and vital debut collection of poems that mixes ekphrasis with reportage to draw a new narrative of our present-day migration crises

Crosslight for Youngbird explores the slipperiness of borders, as well as borders' tentacles: mother tongue, language and mastery, citizenship and nationality, migration and flight. These poems are concerned with the demands we...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1937658872
• ISBN13: 9781937658878
• Release Date: October 2018
• Publisher: Nightboat Books
• Length: 88 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.3" x 7.9"