Jennifer Wallace

Accumulated Lessons in Displacement

Arts & Literature

“Hicks invites readers to travel with her from Singapore to Baltimore, from Amman to the Congo. The contemplations here are not mere travel reflections; instead, they explore, as Hicks says, ‘the small balls of hope’ that insist themselves and help us to be present with personal and global suffering. Richly rooted in wisdoms from many traditions, these poems remind us that the paradoxes we all live with are as much gift as burden.”