The Border Crossed Us (an anthology to end apartheid)
The Border Crossed Us (an anthology to
end apartheid)
by Mark Lipman,
Editor / ISBN 978-0-9885023-7-6
Poetry. Latinx Studies. Native American Studies. Middle Eastern Studies. Winner of the 2016 International Latino Book Award for Best Anthology. "Required Reading" for the 2017 Latino Book Review. Includes 25 full-color illustrations. This collection combines the themes of Immigration Justice in the U.S. and Justice for Palestine.
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"Here in THE BORDER CROSSED US (AN
ANTHOLOGY TO END APARTHEID), poets weigh in with images, metaphors and poetic
turns that teach and illustrate the dilemmas and injustices currently
under-girding the immigration issue.
"In this collection, we see poems
of lament and affirmation, like Dorothy Payne's: 'So with hot woman-words / and
a wildfire of revenge, / I'll unbury the mothers / and cradle brown men / still
hanging from limbs / to restore to the soil / a borderless nation /...'. Or
Antonieta Villamil's: 'Say that I bring in my sight / the eye of the hurricane
/ and under my fingernails / the earth I could not dig for my dead.'
"We have odes to the Gaza Strip, to
Honduras, South Texas, Colombia, South Africa, the Arab Spring, Los Angeles,
Indian lands, and so much more. We have poems in Arab and Hebrew. English,
Spanish and anguish. From across this country and other nations, from 'endless'
borders to poems without end."—Luis J. Rodriguez, Los Angeles Poet
Laureate
The Border Crossed Us / An Anthology to End Apartheid
Reviewed by Gerald A. Padilla / 12/18/2016
Gerald A. Padilla @ Latino Book Review : Whether you believe in ars gratia artis or see art inextricably
intertwined with society, it is an undeniable fact that when social turmoil
arises, artists will make themselves heard. This is the case of The Border
Crossed Us, a poetic anthology to end the apartheid in Palestine and the U.S.,
where the Palestinian, Native American and Mexican people have been considered
trespassers in their own land by their colonizing oppressors.
In the anthology, you will find strong
and unwavering Latino voices by poets such as: Antonieta Villamil, Adela
Najarro, César L. De León, Nephtalí De León as well as many more who give
testimony of the strength, struggle and resistance by Palestinians, Native
Americans and Latinx across the continent.
The Border Crossed Us presents an
unapologetic awakening of artists who do not shy away in the face of social
injustice, who decide to raise their voices for their fellow brothers in a
choir that echoes Luis J. Rodriguez's words, "Free Palestine. Free Native
America. Free Mexico. Free all imprisoned nations."
Mark Lipman, founder of VAGABOND and recipient of the 2015 Joe Hill Labor Poetry Award is a writer, poet, multimedia artist and activist. He is the author of six books, most recently, Poetry for the Masses and Global Economic Amnesty. Co-founder of the Berkeley Stop the War Coalition (USA), Agir Contre la Guerre (France) and Occupy Los Angeles, he has been an outspoken critic of war and occupation since 2001. Mark uses poetry to connect communities to the greater social issues that affect all of our lives, while building consciousness through the spoken word. Currently, he is a member of POWER (People Organized for Westside Renewal), the IWW (Industrial Workers of the World); Occupy Venice, the Revolutionary Poets Brigade and 100 Thousand Poets for Change. Author City: VENICE, CA USA.
