Two of the world's most forbidding borders run along the eastern edge of Ukraine and the northern edge of Mexico, but lines of control can materialize between and across any place or people: in the supposed unanimity of the European Union, on the streets of the world's wealthiest democracies, in the memories of an exile. An engine of violence and discord, a destroyer of identity and integrity, a border is an abstraction disguised as an inevitability. To create another reality, this book invites writers and artists to a ground-breaking project of mutual translation and encounter, moving through and across Spanish, Ukrainian, English, Chinese, Hebrew, Hungarian, Bosnian, French, and Russian. It provides a starting point to communicate, document, and expand experiences of separation and sovereignty through essays, stories, art, and poetry.
