Between a Bird Cage and a Bird House by Katerina Stoykova - 9780813198682

The University Press of Kentucky

Between a Bird Cage and a Bird HousePoems\nAuthor(s): Katerina Stoykova\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: The University Press of Kentucky, United States\nImprint: The University Press of Kentucky\nISBN-13: 9780813198682, 978-0813198682\nSynopsis\nThe fall of the Iron Curtain in the early 1990s ushered in a new tide of European immigrants to the United States. These populations, which hailed primarily from Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union, were largely adrift in America's cultural melting pot. Laden with their belongings and informed by their experiences, these immigrants became citizens of a new diaspora searching for space to exist in their adopted home. \n\nIn Between a Bird Cage and a Bird House, author Katerina Stoykova follows that which \""calls / the roaming mind / looking for land\"" with the shell of her homeland at her back. Through themes of domestic abuse, the death of a parent, the loss of a friend, and the search for cultural identity, the poems in this collection.