Crosslight for Youngbird [Paperback]

Crosslight for Youngbird?explores the slipperiness of borders, as well as borders tentacles: mother tongue, language and mastery, citizenship and nationality, migration and flight. These poems are concerned with the demands we make on our body, the limits of those demands, and ultimately, how everyone inhabits space.An urgent and vital debut collection of poems that mixes ekphrasis with reportage to draw a new narrative of our present-day migration crisesASIYA WADUD is a writer and third grade teacher. She is the author of the chapbook we, too, are but the fold. Every Wednesday, she teaches English to new immigrants and refugees. She lives in Brooklyn, New York.According to the principles of the distribution of light, or, Gods will, a person interested in the future must account for each flicker or movement of the enclosures that engage and separate us from and with one another. Asiyas work takes, indeed, a birds eye view. I think it is possible to believe in the invocation of the wide view. Simone White