Published in 2022
80 pages
Anni Liu is the author of Border Vista (2022), winner of the Lexi Rudnitsky First Book Prize from Persea Books, and her poetry and translations have been featured in Ecotone, the Georgia Review, Hyphen, Two Lines, and elsewhere. She holds an MFA from Indiana University and works at Graywolf Press.
What is this book about?
Winner of the 2021 Lexi Rudnitsky First Book Prize in Poetry, a striking exploration of being undocumented in America
Border Vista intimately narrates the experience of being undocumented, or precariously documented, in America. In poems that consider migration as an ongoing process rather than a finite event, Anni Liu writes exquisitely and on fear (useful and paranoid) and agency, loneliness, and the way the violence of the carceral state shapes our most intimate relationships to each other and to the land. As she does, she revisits moments of unexpected poignancy: searching for turtles in a drainage ditch, picking crabapples along a rural highway, smelling the namesake flower of her mother, who is half a world away.
