I Come from Immigrants
by
Margaret Duda
ISBN: 9781639803347
Published/Created: American Fork, 2023
In Margaret Duda's vivid and transporting poems in I Come from Immigrants, we can smell the candles burning, coffee brewing, stuffed cabbage simmering. She embraces her Hungarian-American heritage with palpable love and appreciation, bolstered by a deep memory of precise details from the past. I was enraptured by her tender stories of the courageous ancestors who helped mold her into the mother, the grandmother, and the poet she would become, writing poems in the beautiful tradition of elegy entwined with celebration. Andrea Potos, author of Her Joy Becomes Margaret Duda's poetry collection, entitled I Come from Immigrants, shows us how narrative poetry can plumb the depths of joy, beauty, sorrow, and grief. It reads like a novella, each poem a tiny gem of a chapter in her past or present life. Joan Leotta, author of Feathers on Stone. - Provided by publisher.