Amnion Brandon Shimoda and translation-theorist Mireille Gansel crisscrosses

and translation-theorist Mireille Gansel crisscrosses time and extends hospitality to exiled poets and peoples in her quest to recreate a lost literary and spiritual home

a plain introduction to modes of love and reason/Then to end I guess with love

' In these war-torn days of refugees fleeing to Europe

'Al een indrukwekkend oeuvre lang slaagt Tellegen erin om het grootse

ultimately realizing too late that he cannot transcend the reverberations and echoes laden with black social death

Amnion Brandon Shimoda and translation-theorist Mireille Gansel crisscrossesStephanie Sy Quia Amnion is a contemporary lyric epic, journeying from the Philippines to Libya, through France, Spain, and the UK. This debut collection of poems questions keenly and urgently the roots of migration and colonialism, charting what it means to grow up in a family divided by geography, history and language. Managing the consequences of empire, familial discord, personal mythologies and contemporary issues of class and race, these