Immigrant - Marcela Sulak

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Résumé :
Poetry. Jewish Studies. IMMIGRANT began as a collection of sonnets rooted in the history, myths and customs surrounding fruits and vegetables, and now it includes snapshots of displaced people recreating themselves and the world in which they find themselves. Marcela Sulak draws upon travels and research for a 500-year history of the Sephardic Jews of Venezuela, and her years in Central Europe as a translator, and her early years on a rice-farm in Texas, describing immigrants of all kinds, and showing how deeply connected we are....

Sommaire:
Marcela Malek Sulak is the author of IMMIGRANT, released by Black Lawrence Press in 2010, and a chapbook, Of All the Things That Don't Exist, I Love You Best (Finishing Line Press, 2008). She has translated three book-length collections of poetry: Karel Hynek Macha's May and Karel Jaromir Erben's Bouquet, from the Czech (Twisted Spoon Press, ) and Mutombo Nkulu-N'Sengha's Bela-Wenda, from the French (Host Publications, 2011). With Jacqueline Kolosov, she is editing Family Resemblances: An Anthology of Hybrid Literature, forthcoming in 2015 from Rose Metal Press. Her poetry recently appeared in such journals as Fence, New Letters, Cimarron Review, Black Warrior Review and The Notre Dame Review. Her essays have appeared or are forthcoming in The Iowa Review, The Los Angeles Review of Books, Poet Lore and Rattle. She has lived and worked as a free- lance writer and instructor in Germany, the Czech Republic, Venezuela and Israel. She directs the Shaindy Rudoff Graduate Program in Creative Writing at Bar-Ilan University, where she is a senior lecturer in American Literature....