Two Poems
These poems are trying to tell the life stories of two generations of immigrants. Grand-parents immigrated from Crimea to Ottoman Empire, a superpower at the time, but imploding shortly after to a small modern republic, still in trouble, and the grand-children immigrated to the States, a superpower...
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These poems are trying to tell the life stories of two generations of immigrants. Grand-parents immigrated from Crimea to Ottoman Empire, a superpower at the time, but imploding shortly after to a small modern republic, still in trouble, and the grand-children immigrated to the States, a superpower, and experiencing the fear that she might also become soon a third-world country.
I prefer not to explicate my poems, they should speak independently. This time, I felt the urge to tell the background story. Forgive my intrusion.
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| spelling | doaj.art-b6289df3d6bf4038a71c069a263197b22023-08-23T17:58:21ZengUniversity Library System, University of PittsburghRadical Teacher1941-08322023-08-0112610.5195/rt.2023.1144Two PoemsAdnan Adam Onart0Former Adjunct at Boston University These poems are trying to tell the life stories of two generations of immigrants. Grand-parents immigrated from Crimea to Ottoman Empire, a superpower at the time, but imploding shortly after to a small modern republic, still in trouble, and the grand-children immigrated to the States, a superpower, and experiencing the fear that she might also become soon a third-world country. I prefer not to explicate my poems, they should speak independently. This time, I felt the urge to tell the background story. Forgive my intrusion. http://radicalteacher.library.pitt.edu/ojs/radicalteacher/article/view/1144 |
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