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Across Palestine, from the Allenby Bridge and Ramallah, to
Jerusalem and Gaza, Marcello Di Cintio has met with writers, poets,
librarians, booksellers and readers, finding extraordinary stories
in every corner. Stories of how revolutionary writing is smuggled
from the Naqab Prison, and about what it is like to write with only
two hours of electricity each day. Stories from the Gallery Cafe,
whose opening three thousand creative intellectuals gathered to
celebrate; and the lost generations of stories contained within the
looted books that sit in Israel's National Library. Pay No Heed to
the Rockets offers a window into the literary heritage of Palestine
that transcends the narrow language of conflict, revealing a
humanity often unreported. Paying homage to the memory of literary
giants like Mahmoud Darwish and Ghassan Kanafani and the
contemporary authors whom they continue to inspire, this evocative,
lyrical journey shares both the anguish and inspiration of
Palestine today.
Shortlisted for the Bressani Literary Prize * A Globe and Mail Book
of the Year * A CBC Books Best Canadian Nonfiction of 2021 In
conversations with drivers ranging from veterans of foreign wars to
Indigenous women protecting one another, Di Cintio explores the
borderland of the North American taxi. "The taxi," writes Marcello
Di Cintio, "is a border." Occupying the space between public and
private, a cab brings together people who might otherwise never
have met-yet most of us sit in the back and stare at our phones.
Nowhere else do people occupy such intimate quarters and share so
little. In a series of interviews with drivers, their backgrounds
ranging from the Iraqi National Guard, to the Westboro Baptist
Church, to an arranged marriage that left one woman stranded in a
foreign country with nothing but a suitcase, Driven seeks out those
missed conversations, revealing the unknown stories that surround
us. Travelling across borders of all kinds, from battlefields and
occupied lands to midnight fares and Tim Hortons parking lots, Di
Cintio chronicles the many journeys each driver made merely for the
privilege to turn on their rooflight. Yet these lives aren't
defined by tragedy or frustration but by ingenuity and generosity,
hope and indomitable hard work. From night school and sixteen-hour
shifts to schemes for athletic careers and the secret Shakespeare
of Dylan's lyrics, Di Cintio's subjects share the passions and
triumphs that drive them. Like the people encountered in its pages,
Driven is an unexpected delight, and that most wondrous of all
things: a book that will change the way you see the world around
you. A paean to the power of personality and perseverance, it's a
compassionate and joyful tribute to the men and women who take us
where we want to go.
Borderwall as Architecture is an artistic and intellectual hand
grenade of a book, and a timely re-examination of what the physical
barrier that divides the United States of America from the United
Mexican States is and could be. It is both a protest against the
wall and a projection about its future. Through a series of
propositions suggesting that the nearly seven hundred miles of wall
is an opportunity for economic and social development along the
border that encourages its conceptual and physical dismantling, the
book takes readers on a journey along a wall that cuts through a
"third nation"-the Divided States of America. On the way the
transformative effects of the wall on people, animals, and the
natural and built landscape are exposed and interrogated through
the story of people who, on both sides of the border, transform the
wall, challenging its existence in remarkably creative ways.
Coupled with these real-life accounts are counterproposals for the
wall, created by Rael's studio, that reimagine, hyperbolize, or
question the wall and its construction, cost, performance, and
meaning. Rael proposes that despite the intended use of the wall,
which is to keep people out and away, the wall is instead an
attractor, engaging both sides in a common dialogue. Included is a
collection of reflections on the wall and its consequences by
leading experts Michael Dear, Norma Iglesias-Prieto, Marcello Di
Cintio, and Teddy Cruz.
What does it mean to live against a wall? In this ambitious first
person narrative, Marcello Di Cintio travels to the world's most
disputed edges to meet the people who live alongside the razor
wire, concrete, and steel and how the structure of the walls has
influenced their lives. Di Cintio shares tea with Saharan refugees
on the wrong side of Morocco's desert wall. He meets with illegal
Punjabi migrants who have circumvented the fencing around the
Spanish enclave of Ceuta. He visits fenced-in villages in northeast
India, walks Arizona's migrant trails, and travels to Palestinian
villages to witness the protests against Israel's security barrier.
From Native American reservations on the U.S.-Mexico border and the
"Great Wall of Montreal" to Cyprus's divided capital and the Peace
Lines of Belfast, Di Cintio seeks to understand what these
structures say about those who build them and how they influence
the cultures that they pen in. He learns that while every wall
fails to accomplish what it was erected to achieve - the walls are
never solutions - each wall succeeds at something else. Some walls
define Us from Them with Medieval clarity. Some walls encourage
fear or feed hate. Some walls steal. Others kill. And every wall
inspires its own subversion, either by the infiltrators who dare to
go over, under, or around them, or by the artists who transform
them.
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