AT RISK Author|Stephen Karakashian

AT RISK Author|Stephen KarakashianIn her fourth poetry collection, At Risk, Teresa Cader reflects on suffering, survival, and the defiant force of lovewhat Polish Nobel Laureate Wislawa Szymborska identified in herself as "rapture and despair." Many of Cader's poems bear familial witness to the same brutal historical landscape and its forced immigration; others explore risks to self, identity, and survival in contemporary America. All are linked by a compassionate imagination,

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reveal glimpses of the life and thoughts of an anonymous self-described gomer—Gomer-I-Am—an aging

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