Disaster Tourism (Paperback)

Rena J. Mosteirin

ISBN 10: 1960145770 / ISBN 13: 9781960145772

Published by BOA Editions, Limited, Rochester, 2025

About this Item

Paperback. Disaster Tourism is a poetry collection that offers glimpses of disasters at once personal and global. The term "disaster tourism" refers to the offensive practice of visiting sites after a cataclysm. Steeped in violence, injustice, immigration stories, and accounts of police brutality, Disaster Tourism gives us a lens to re-imagine our dangerous surroundings in the hopes that we strive toward a better existence, even when it hurts.Born of a Cuban refugee father and a mother whose homeland of Gottschee is now considered Slovenia, Rena J. Mosteirin's identity and poetry are shaped by the respective lost homelands of her parents. Bold, unflinching, and lyrical, yet laced with a disarmingly clever and sometimes wicked sense of humor, these poems sift through various sites and forms of devastation to reveal moments of love and joy.Mosteirin uses observational wit and arresting clarity to bring us closer to the fires burning all around us. Yet, through it all, there is the interconnectedness of family and community including our world community entreating us to carry on with an eye toward helping each other through this challenging life. Shipping may be from our Sydney, NSW warehouse or from our UK or US warehouse, depending on stock availability.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Disaster Tourism (Paperback)
• Publisher: BOA Editions, Limited, Rochester
• Publication Date: 2025
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1960145770
• ISBN 13: 9781960145772
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: new

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Synopsis

Disaster Tourism is a poetry collection that offers glimpses of disasters at once personal and global. The term “disaster tourism” refers to the offensive practice of visiting sites after a cataclysm. Steeped in violence, injustice, immigration stories, and accounts of police brutality, Disaster Tourism gives us a lens to re-imagine our dangerous surroundings in the hopes that we strive toward a better existence, even when it hurts.

Born of a Cuban refugee father and a mother whose homeland of Gottschee is now considered Slovenia, Rena J. Mosteirin’s identity and poetry are shaped by the respective lost homelands of her parents. Bold, unflinching, and lyrical, yet laced with a disarmingly clever and sometimes wicked sense of humor, these poems sift through various sites and forms of devastation to reveal moments of love and joy. 

Mosteirin uses observational wit and arresting clarity to bring us closer to the fires burning all around us. Yet, through it all, there is the interconnectedness of family and community – including our world community – entreating us to carry on with an eye toward helping each other through this challenging life.

About the Author

Rena J. Mosteirin teaches at Dartmouth College and owns Left Bank Books, a used bookstore in Hanover, New Hampshire. Her work has been published in The Common, The Rumpus, New York Magazine, New England Review, The Southampton Review, no tokens, The Puritan, and elsewhere. Mosteirin is an editor at Bloodroot Literary Magazine and lives in Lyme, NH.