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LEO BOIX talks to Angus Reid about exile, language and the irony of the title of his first collection of poems written in English, Ballad of a Happy Immigrant
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LEO BOIX, who contributes a regular column to the Star on new Latin American literature, reveals the playful and unique sensibility of the LatinX migrant in his first English language collection of poetry, Ballad of a Happy Immigrant.
His two previous collections were in Spanish; for this one he has attempted something that few poets dare and even fewer achieve — to write in an adopted language.
As an activist for the LatinX community, a translator and a teacher, Boix is an ambassador between cultures. As a poet he is even more generous: he gives us access to the complex inner life of the immigrant.
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