Friday, September 2, 2022

corre y corre sin detenerte / run and run without stopping — by undocumented youth detained in Pierce County WA

 Nonfiction / poetry

Copyright by Collateral

www.collateraljournal.com

cost: $10.00

s/h $2.00

 

The young men, aged 13-17 years, were unaccompanied minors and living in the Selma Carson Home in Pierce County WA at the time of publication. Volunteer translators/interpreters helped facilitate some poetry workshops, and we are the beneficiary. The writers, identified only by one initial, had a range of education from no classroom or literacy background to middle- to high-school.

 

When told their poems would be published, smiles covered their faces. And well that news should make them smile. All twenty poems are given in Spanish and then English. They are all heartfelt and range from three-line poems to one that takes up most of two pages. A surprising (to me) number were written in English then translated into Spanish. And all are from the heart.

 

Topics range from Mom to home, the wind, lions, a bird, freedom. The book is 6” x 6”, holds 11 sheets, folded and saddle stapled. I hope you will go to the link, https://www.collateraljournal.com/community and buy a copy. It’s a marvelous piece of optimism and hope and love of life. It is well worth your time and money to have your own copy.

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