The Crossing Over

by Jen Karetnick

Book Overview

The Crossing Over by Jen Karetnick is the winner of the 2018 Split Rock Review Poetry Chapbook Contest. These poems about the migrant experience in the Mediterranean, narrated from the boat's point of view, begin with the crafting of the vehicle - the birth of its voice - and end with its destruction. As much participant as it is victim, the boat is the lens through which the reader sees all that happens to the refugees: smuggling, hunger and thirst,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1794439277
• ISBN13: 9781794439276
• Release Date: February 2019
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 34 Pages
• Weight: 0.14 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.1" x 6.0" x 9.0"