Refuge
Subtitle: a memoir
By: Ming Holden
Publisher: Kore Press
Published: 2018
Place of publication: Tucson
Language: eng
Number of pages: 246
ISBN-13: 9781888553956
Subjects: Women authors; Biography; International travel; Anecdotes; Arts in social service; Self-actualization (Psychology)
Work titles: Essays
Description: "Refuge is a book of lyric essays about a young woman's life as a budding writer and an international development and aid worker. Spanning twelve years and multiple continents, it focuses in large part on her advocacy and theater work with refugees. From crossing the border into one of Syria's refugee camps in 2013; to an interview with a man who fled Aleppo for the peace and security of Sweden in 2015; to working in a sustainable forestry foundation near Siberia in 2003, to taking the train from Mongolia to China to visit the home and wife of an exiled writer in 2008; to founding a self-sustaining theater project with Congolese refugee women in a slum of Nairobi in 2013; to finding George Oppen's old typewriter in the attic of a farmhouse in Maine in 2004; to working as a nude model for artists' groups in college--the work these lyric essays illuminates is that of a twenty- something year old woman trying to find herself and her world by putting her body in places, within boundaries, others might not ever consider stepping foot inside of"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.

"Selected by Lidia Yuknavitch for the 2016 Kore Memoir Award."--Preliminary page.
Table of contents: title: Rose (Rhode Island, USA); title: The surest way to survive (Syria & Turkey); title: What you wait for (from Syria to Sweden); title: Typewriter (Maine, USA); title: Jacqueline and the negative imagination (Kenya); title: Thank you for your advices (Canada); title: Furious angels: the poetics of political exile (Mongolia & China); title: Lenin (Russia); title: Sickness (Bolivia); title: Coyote (California, USA).