Contraband of Hoopoe explores issues of dislocation, immigration
and desire. Chrusciel invents a poetics of smuggling as she crosses
national, historical and linguistic borders. The migratory
narrative is distinctly errant, haunted by a childhood lived under
a Communist regime, by the austerity of Eastern block politics, and
by the possibility of discovering a fleeting language to carry the
seeds of illicit revelation, spiritual transformation, and insight.
The book elevates smuggling to a noble art, recording how the
Jewish people were hidden and transported during the Holocaust.
Chrusciel tracks a series of historical objects and secret messages
that immigrants throughout history have been sneaking through
customs, past border checkpoints, and across the seas.
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