No matter how you were touched by the events of September 11, 2001, that moment continues to resonate.
Crossing the Rift: North Carolina Poets on 9/11 & Its Aftermath illuminates not only what happened that day, but what continues to challenge us twenty years later: Islamophobia, the vilification of refugees and asylum-seekers, nationalism, supercharged military budgets, and rises in virulent racism and domestic terrorism.
Edited by former North Carolina poet laureate Joseph Bathanti and 9/11 family member and former literature and theater director for the North Carolina Arts Council David Potorti, Crossing the Rift takes head-on what Carolyn Forche calls the poetry of witness and its advocacy for a shared sense of humanity and collective resistance.
| Rift | North |
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| Aftermath illuminates not only what happened that day, but what continues to challenge us twenty years later | Islamophobia the vilification of refugees and asylumseekers nationalism supercharged military budgets and rises in virulent racism and domestic terrorism |
Press 53 Crossing the rift: north carolina poets on 9/11 and its aftermath, paperback/joseph bathanti
