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"The poems in The Boat that Brought Sadness into the World address exile both literally and metaphorically. The book addresses the literal exile of the poems' main speaker as well as the hard migrations of refugees. It discusses how exile might ""swallow [one] whole"" and the pain of refugees, whom the speaker imagines long to see their homeland once more. Metaphorically, it looks at life as a journey of and to exile. The book explores, for example, the journey from childhood through older ages and suggests that death is the ultimate exile as we leave the country of the body. These poems are incantations that challenge, refuse, and accept loss and longing."

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Eva Skrande is the author of three volumes of poems, including My Mother's Cuba and Bone Argot along with the chapbook, The Gates of the Somnambulist. Her poems have appeared in Agni, The Iowa Review, Smartish Pace the American Poetry Review, and other journals. Skrande has received fellowships from the Creative Writing Program at the University of Houston, the Inprint Foundation, and the Houston Arts Council. She teaches Poetry Writing and Creative Writing to people of all ages. She is a faculty tutor at Houston Community College as well as a writing coach and founder of Write for Success Tutoring.

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