Immigrant Model

by Mihaela Moscaliuc

The poems in Immigrant Model explore issues of individual and communal identity in the face of conflict, conflicting "truths" or histories, and uprootedness. They explore the notion of homeland as it relates to one's roots, adopted space, psychological terrain, gendered body. If the book reads as a collage of voices or shards rather than as a book with an identifiable arc, it's because that's the only way the poet has managed to answer, so far, the question, "What is it like to be of this world and this world and this world, while also of the elsewhere skirting these worlds?"

Genres: Poetry

112 pages, Paperback

First published January 12, 2015

Reviews

[Gerry LaFemina · Rating 5 out of 5]

Mihaela Moscaliuc has a written a powerhouse book that mixes the American and Eastern European aesthetics and sensibilities. The book's eight sections show her diversity as a poet--prose poems, long sectional meditations, short lyrics all share these pages, and her control of the image and of narrative show a poet at the top of her game.

[Carolina · Rating 3 out of 5]

Interesting poems, at times very hard to understand, although they speak of experience - persecution, exile, etc.