Essential poetry of witness from the front lines of border militarization in Southern Arizona. These poetic dispatches bear witness to the fracturing of ecosystems and cultures due to border wall construction and extractive capitalism.
First Artspeak Press Edition, 2025. 6”x9”, 112 pages.
“These are poems of witness, essential soul testimony from the scenes of a paranoid society’s crimes. And they offer glimpses of how we stay human without looking away: cultivating wonder, raising children, fighting like hell for the beauty still woven all around and through us.” – Logan Phillips, from the introduction to Borderlings
Essential poetry of witness from the front lines of border militarization in Southern Arizona. These poetic dispatches bear witness to the fracturing of ecosystems and cultures due to border wall construction and extractive capitalism.
First Artspeak Press Edition, 2025. 6”x9”, 112 pages.
“These are poems of witness, essential soul testimony from the scenes of a paranoid society’s crimes. And they offer glimpses of how we stay human without looking away: cultivating wonder, raising children, fighting like hell for the beauty still woven all around and through us.” – Logan Phillips, from the introduction to Borderlings
From BORDERLINGS by Russ McSpadden
Borderlings Table of Contents
