Unaccompanied

Posted on by

This gorgeous debut speaks with heart wrenching intimacy and first hand experience to the hot button political issues of immigration and border crossings. Free Read Unaccompanied [ by ] Javier Zamora [ Kindle ePUB or eBook ] – kino-fada.fr Wonderful collection of poems I enjoyed the walk through a different life.Zamora s first full length poetry collection arrives at a very crucial moment for our country The wall depicted on the cover reflects both our president s words and what separates a young boy from his parents The material appears to be heavily autobiographical, or biographical about his other family members This gives US readers, who may be unfamiliar with El Salvador s brutal war, an introduction to how that country has been torn apart and affected across time.Immigration, both its causes an Zamora s first full length poetry collection arrives at a very crucial moment for our country The wall depicted on the cover reflects both our president s words and what separates a young boy from his parents The material appears to be heavily autobiographical, or biographical about his other family members This gives US readers, who may be unfamiliar with El Salvador s brutal war, an introduction to how that country has been torn apart and affected across time.Immigration, both its causes and effects, is the big theme here The narrator, a Salvadorian immigrant to the US at 9 years old, is neither fully here nor there I ll never be a citizen I ll never scrub clothes with pumice stones over the big cement tub under the almond trees To Abuelita Neli 3 There are numerous poems dedicated to the act of border crossing, and each is powerful in different ways Let Me Try Again is ...Real life turned into myth and myth made real life Poet Javier Zamora was born in the small El Salvadoran coastal fishing town of La Herradura and immigrated to the United States at the age of nine, joining his parents in California He earned a BA at the University of California Berkeley and an MFA at New York University and is a 2016 2018 Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford University.Javier s debut UNACCOMPANIED assesses borderland politics, race, and immigration on a profoundly personal leve Real life tu...An astonishingly powerful book of poetry, largely speaking of the memories of growing up amid the violence of civil war in El Salvador, and the experiences of illegal immigration into the United States.Among my favorites Instructions for my Funeral Douse my in the cheapest gin Whatever you do,don t judge my home Cut my boneswith a machete till I m finest dust Wrap my pito in panties so I dream of pisar.Please, no priests, no crosses, no flowers Disappeared begins Hold...A friend suggested this collection after hearing an NPR interview I had just read about Zamora in Poets Writers so dropped what else I was reading to pick this up While I loved the subject matter and his delivery, I think there are significant things I missed by not speaking Spanish there are portions of poems in Spanish with no translation that I simply didn t want to Google to understand what he was saying Even with that, great collection and enjoyable read My faves were To Abueli A friend suggested this collection after hearing an NPR interview I had just read about Zamora in Poets Writers so dropped what else I was reading to pick this up While I loved the subject matter and his delivery, I think there are significant things I missed by not speaking Spanish there are portions of poems in Spanish with no translation that I simply didn t want to Google to understand what he was saying E...More than ever, this book is a calling to our country s newly set directives toward immigration and our country s new, but certainly not unified, mantra, all borders closed policy This not the United States I w...I ll be back soon mijo but in our windows still no glass,when raindrops hit the sill they touch my skin like her eyes didthat morning she said I ll be back soon mijo To what extent is immigration really a choice, when your homeland is filled with war and gang violence, and your children hungry Powerful collection of poems by Zamora who immigrated to the US from El Salvador, beautifully capturing the pain of families torn apart by immigration who can not go back and still return, who don t I ll be back soon mijo but in our windows still no glass,when raindrops hit the sill they touch my skin like her eyes didthat morning she said I ll be back soon mijo To what extent is immigration really a choice, when your homeland is filled with war and gang violence, and your children hungry Powerful collection of poems by Zamora who immigrated to the US from El Salvador, beautifully capturing the pain of families torn apart by immigration who can...Powerful book Also enlightening when I looked at my public library and saw the miniscule section on Central or South American poets and authors nothing since Neruda, and the lack of books covering contemporary political or social issues there We are stuck in a Conquistador timewarp.An aching, beautiful collection of poems chronicling an immigrant s experience crossing into the United States Zamora has an arresting poetic voice and I m eager to hearfrom him My favorite poems were the Pi...I can t be objective in this review I saw Javier in person, got an autograph, and I guess that radically changed how I began and ended with the book And as a migrant myself, there was so much about this book that resonated They were like stories from a long lost friend.

Unaccompanied
  • 11 July 2017
  • Paperback
  • 88 pages
  • 1556595115
  • Javier Zamora
  • Unaccompanied