Foreword

“Here lies the refugee breather / Who drank a bowl of elsewhere.”
~ Anne Carson, Epitaph: Zion

Within these pages we pursue the spaces where edges meet, collide, trespass, and transform. The lines shift; we emerge in a bazaar of artistic shapes to observe the shorelines of our intimate landscapes, our cusps of change. The frictions in these margins, the unexpected incongruities in these pages — they startle, delight, and move. Bottled visions of elsewhere and home are laid bare before the reader’s gaze. They talk to one another; they breathe. These are points where ink spills into meaning, into depth. We only hope they may give you as much pleasure as they have given us.

Ramya Jegatheesan
Editor-in-Chief 2007-2008