{"product_id":"this-is-the-language-that-was-given-to-us-volume-three-of-the-bare-life-review-a-journal-of-immigrant-and-refugee-literature","title":"This Is the Language That Was Given to Us: Volume Three of The Bare Life Review: A Journal of Immigrant and Refugee Literature","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eFrom \u003cem\u003eThe Bare Life Review\u003c\/em\u003e—the only publication whose sole mission is to publish the work of immigrant and refugee writers—comes a remarkable third volume, \u003cem\u003eThis Is the Language That Was Given to Us\u003c\/em\u003e. Featuring original poetry and prose by fifteen writers from twelve different countries, from established stars to new and emerging talents, \u003cem\u003eThis Is the Language That Was Given to Us\u003c\/em\u003e weaves a many-threaded tapestry, exemplifying the diversity and richness of international literature.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThis collection includes Namwali Serpell on the fragility of personal bonds old and new, and what the late Toni Morrison’s seminal novel, \u003cem\u003eBeloved\u003c\/em\u003e, can teach us about love and intimacy; Sergio Aguilar Rivera’s Kafkaesque evocation of the anxieties that might plague a new mother; poems by Josey Foo, Chekwube Danladi, and others; and newcomer Anna Andrew on seeking both refuge and sustenance across southern Sudan, Uganda, and Egypt.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eOf Andrew’s work, editor-in-chief Nyuol Lueth Tong writes, “Hunger itself becomes the very reality of exile… that hungering becomes the deeper hungering for home that plagues the displaced. Anna’s recipes and cooking methods are her grammar of persistence, depository of memories and stories, the language that her survival has given her.”\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eProse by:\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAnna Andrew\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003eCatharina Coenen\u003cbr\u003eCatherine C. Con\u003cbr\u003eDonna Hemans\u003cbr\u003ePete Hsu\u003cbr\u003eMehdi M. Kashani\u003cbr\u003eSergio Aguilar Rivera\u003cbr\u003eNamwali Serpell\u003cbr\u003eJesus Francisco Sierra\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003cem\u003ePoetry by:\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eChekwube Danladi\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003eSiyun Fang\u003cbr\u003eJosey Foo\u003cbr\u003eAnca Roncea\u003cbr\u003eLiwa Sun\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAnd an interview with Matvei Yankelevich of Ugly Duckling Presse (conducted by Etan Nechin)\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe Bare Life Review\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan\u003e was founded in 2017 as the only literary biannual devoted entirely to publishing the work of immigrant and refugee writers. Led by Editor-in-Chief Nyuol Lueth Tong (\u003cem\u003eThere Is a Country: New Fiction from the New Nation of South Sudan\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eMcSweeney’s 52: In Their Faces, a Landmark\u003c\/em\u003e), its editorial staff is comprised of working writers, all immigrants in their own right. The editorial advisory board includes Dave Eggers, Akhil Sharma, Paul Harding, Ainehi Edoro, and others. The first two volumes of The Bare Life Review garnered recognition from the Pushcart Prize (Vol. 1, for Hoa Nguyen’s poetry) and the Community of Literary Magazines and Presses (Best Debut Magazine). The Bare Life Review is a member of Intersection for the Arts, a non-profit arts organization in San Francisco.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e“\u003cem\u003eThe Bare Life Review \u003c\/em\u003ehas a keen understanding of literary art [as] a necessary space for reacting to global trauma.” -- Scott Tschirhart for \u003cem\u003ePortland Review\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cspan\u003e“[\u003cem\u003eThe Bare Life Review\u003c\/em\u003e's] very existence point[s] to the emergent urgency of creating a space for migrant writing. 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