Barbed Wire Between UsBarbed Wire Between Us

"Read forward, a Japanese American girl is uprooted and sent to an incarceration camp during World War II, her world reduced to dust, distance, and longing. Read in reverse, and the poem transforms: now a Latina girl stands in that same place, detained generations later, her story echoing across time. With language as spare as it is powerful, Mia Wenjen shapes a reverso poem that reveals how history can fold in on itself--how loss, resilience, and hope repeat in new forms. Violeta Encarnacinó's evocative artwork deepens the emotional landscape, illuminating both the quiet tenderness and the stark realities of life behind the wire. Together, they create a book that reads like a mirror held up to the past--and the present."--Provided by publisher.