Before becoming the bestselling author we know today, Barbara
Kingsolver was a fresh college graduate who had just moved to
Tucson, Arizona with hopes of open space and adventure. What she
found was quite different, "another America" that she chronicled
through her poetry, in which she came to share her home with
refugees and committed to paper their tragic stories of life at and
beyond the borderland. Interweaving past political events from the
US-backed dictatorships in El Salvador, Nicaragua, and Guatemala,
to the government surveillance carried out in the Reagan years,
Kingsolver's early poetry expands into a broader examination of the
racism, discrimination, and troubled immigration system she lived
beside. They coalesce in a record of her emerging adulthood, in
which she confronts the realization that the national myth of
America she'd signed on to was a hypocrisy -- a realization that
would come to shape her not only as an artist, but as a citizen.
Written with a balance of clarity regarding America's shortcomings
and empathy for her subjects, Another America is a luminous book of
poems, a deeply moving and beautifully crafted exploration of
American society and our individual place within it. As in her
fiction, Kingsolver's poetry rings with a richness of language and
spirit, eloquently expressing her insights with great compassion.
With a new introduction from Kingsolver that reflects on the
current border crisis, Another America is a striking portrait of a
country separated by those with privilege, those without, and the
lives that are lived in between.
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