Border Vista Poems
“Border Vista Poems” by Anni Liu, published by National Geographic Books on April 12, 2022, is a collection of 96 pages that delves into the nuanced experiences of being undocumented in America. Through her poetry, Liu explores themes of migration, fear, and agency, presenting a narrative that reflects on the complexities of identity and belonging in a precarious landscape.
Readers will find a rich tapestry of emotions as Liu intimately narrates her experiences, highlighting moments of both vulnerability and resilience. The poems address the impact of the carceral state on personal relationships and the connection to the land, while also capturing poignant memories such as searching for turtles and picking crabapples. This edition offers insight into the Asian American and Pacific Islander experience, showcasing the voice of a woman author navigating the challenges of her reality.
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Winner of the 2020 Lexi Rudnitsky First Book Prize in Poetry, a striking exploration of being undocumented in America
Border Vista intimately narrates the experience of being undocumented, or precariously documented, in America. In poems that consider migration as an ongoing process rather than a finite event, Anni Liu writes exquisitely and on fear (useful and paranoid) and agency, loneliness, and the way the violence of the carceral state shapes our most intimate relationships to each other and to the land. As she does, she revisits moments of unexpected poignancy: searching for turtles in a drainage ditch, picking crabapples along a rural highway, smelling the namesake flower of her mother, who is half a world away.
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