While poetry is not generally my thing, this was a good read! One cannot imagine the life this young man had crossing 2 countries on his own! ( )

More than ever, this book is a calling to our country’s newly set directives toward immigration and our country’s new, but certainly not unified, mantra, all-borders-closed policy. This not the United States I was raised in or raised to believe in!


As Javier Zamora says “I think in the United States we forget that writing and carrying the banner of ‘being a poet’ is tied into a long history of people who have literally risked [their lives] and died to write these words.” ( )