Even the Milky Way is Undocumented

Name: Even the Milky Way is Undocumented
Brand: Findaway Voices
Availability: InStock
Author: Amy Shimshon-Santo
ISBN: 9781094202181

Author: Amy Shimshon-Santo

Narrator: Amy Shimshon-Santo

Unabridged: 1 hr 13 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Unsolicited Press

Published: 09/22/2020

Categories: Fiction, Poetry, American Poetry

Synopsis

Amy Shimshon-Santo's EVEN THE MILKY WAY IS UNDOCUMENTED is a testament to the lost, the loved, the courageous. Each poem is the past and the future. Each page turns for those built by families that span political borders -- families that see borders as nothing more than lines drawn by an invisible hand that's long forgotten that we belong to the earth and not the other way around.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Taylor

I liked this a lot. There are times when it gets pretty experimental, using lots of blank space and footnotes and brackets and I find it quite daring; with those parts I was reallyinto it. There’s also a heartbreaking story and a sick prose poem type thing, with a clear narrative through line, that......more

Goodreads review by Beatriz

“él escribe en el aire/ con vibración transparente/ y lo leo con los ojos cerrados” it’s been a while since I took the time to read a poetry collection, and this was a nice welcome back. heart-breaking, eye-opening, cross-cultural, and lyrically fun.......more