Making Mirrors: Writing/Righting by Refugees - Softcover

Becky Thompson

Softcover

ISBN 10: 162371978X ISBN 13: 9781623719784

Publisher: Olive Branch Press, 2019

Synopsis

A POETRY ANTHOLOGY THAT ILLUMINATES EXILE AND DISPLACEMENT

Making Mirrors began on two continents, envisioned by Palestinian poet and aid worker, Jehan Bseiso, and Becky Thompson, a US-based poet changed by months of greeting refugees after their perilous journey across the Aegean Sea.

This anthology uses mirrors to reflect imagistic connections that allow us to see ourselves in each other, those on rafts and those standing on the shore, those waiting/writing in detention and those writing from places of relative safety, those who lift their children to the sky and those whose bodies are at the bottom of the sea.

Making Mirrors offers a poetics of belonging"€"to the earth, family, and memories packed into backpacks. The poems go beyond refugee/citizen binaries and illuminate exile as a forced/creative space.

As the refugee crisis fades from the front page of newspapers, this collection is a plea against historical amnesia and inertia; the poems are an antidote that reaches beyond des

About this title

About the Author

Becky Thompson, Ph.D., is a poet, human rights activist, yogi, and professor. She is the author of several books, most recently, Teaching with Tenderness. Since 2015, Becky has been traveling to Greece, meeting rafts, documenting human rights violations, and teaching poetry workshops. Jehan Bseiso is a Palestinian poet and researcher who has been working with Doctors without Borders since 2008. Her co-authored book I Remember My Name (2016) was winner of the Palestine Book Awards.

Edition details

• Publisher: Olive Branch Press
• Publication date: 2019
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 162371978X
• ISBN 13: 9781623719784
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 120
• Editor: Becky Thompson, Jehan Bseiso