[MODERN LITERATURE] Tong, Nyuol Lueth, Kuznecova, Maria

This Is the Language That Was Given to Us: Volume Three of the Bare Life Review. A Journal of Immigrant and Refugee Literature

Bare Life Review, 2019.

Binding: Paperback

From The Bare Life Review--the only publication whose sole mission is to publish the work of immigrant and refugee writers--comes a remarkable third volume, This Is the Language That Was Given to Us. Featuring original poetry and prose by fifteen writers from twelve different countries, from established stars to new and emerging talents, This Is the Language That Was Given to Us weaves a many-threaded tapestry, exemplifying the diversity and richness of international literature.

This collection includes Namwali Serpell on the fragility of personal bonds old and new, and what the late Toni Morrison's seminal novel, Beloved, can teach us about love and intimacy; Sergio Aguilar Rivera's Kafkaesque evocation of the anxieties that might plague a new mother; poems by Josey Foo, Chekwube Danladi, and others; and newcomer Anna Andrew on seeking both refuge and sustenance across southern Sudan, Uganda, and Egypt.

Of Andrew's work, editor-in-chief Nyuol Lueth Tong writes, ''Hunger itself becomes the very reality of exile... that hungering becomes the deeper hungering for home that plagues the displaced. Anna's recipes and cooking methods are her grammar of persistence, depository of memories and stories, the language that her survival has given her.''

Prose by:
Anna Andrew
Catharina Coenen
Catherine C. Con
Donna Hemans
Pete Hsu
Mehdi M. Kashani
Sergio Aguilar Rivera
Namwali Serpell
Jesus Francisco Sierra

Poetry by:
Chekwube Danladi
Siyun Fang
Josey Foo
Anca Roncea
Liwa Sun

And an interview with Matvei Yankelevich of Ugly Duckling Presse (conducted by Etan Nechin).

Item #2098
ISBN: 173418230X

Price: $12.00