{"product_id":"refugee-paperback-4","title":"Refugee - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eErika Michael\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn \u003cstrong\u003eErika Michael\u003c\/strong\u003e's impressive book \u003cem\u003eRefugee, \u003c\/em\u003e she does more than memorialize her family's persecution in Austria for their Jewish faith. While Refugee shows the tremendous loss, brutality, and injustice of it all-the poems also bear witness to moments of resilience and joy. While the book itself raises questions of memories and their allusiveness, what is never in question is the truth of feeling surrounding those memories. \u003cem\u003eRefugee \u003c\/em\u003eblends oral history, songs, and family archival detail to such a degree that readers will feel transported to the locale of each poem. The result is a tremendous accomplishment of faith, memory, and lyricism. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e-Charlotte Pence, Mobile Poet Laureate and author of \u003cem\u003eCode \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eErika Michael\u003c\/strong\u003e's \u003cem\u003eRefugee \u003c\/em\u003eushers us into a Jewish early childhood in Vienna as the Third Reich rises and takes hold. Her poems then carry us west to new beginnings that millions would never access. We're drawn, by her pulsing music of necessity, on through a life imbued with gratitude and a keen feeling of the miraculous. The senses are alive in these poems of moments that might easily have never been.\u003cem\u003e Refugee\u003c\/em\u003e bristles with the utter unlikelihood of a family's American life. \u003cstrong\u003eErika Michael\u003c\/strong\u003e, \"shabby kid with memories of flight,\" renders a destroyed world breathing, laughing, murmuring prayers passed down centuries...reminding us love survives the forces of annihilation. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e-\u003c\/strong\u003eJed Myers, author of \u003cem\u003eLearning to Hold \u003c\/em\u003eand \u003cem\u003eThe Marriage of Space and Time\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 74\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.18 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e October 31, 2025\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47942717374685,"sku":"9798899902376","price":39.72,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0811\/9867\/8237\/files\/IyKZYHh9he9798899902376.webp?v=1779259948","url":"https:\/\/handfulofbooks.com\/products\/refugee-paperback-4","provider":"Handful of Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}