About the Author
Lindsay Soberano-Wilson is a poet, teacher, and freelance writer who lives in Toronto, Ontario, Canada with her husband and three sons. Her poems and articles have appeared in journals, anthologies, and magazines, such as FreshVoices22, Quills Canadian Poetry Magazine, Canadian Woman Studies Journal, Running with Scissors, Travel Thru History, Scary Mommy, Canadian Jewish News, and Poetica Magazine. Follow her on Medium, Twitter or Instagram @Poetry Matters to explore motherhood, relationships, mental health, travel, education and sex positivity. She holds a MA (English Literature) and a BEd from the University of Toronto, and a BA (Creative Writing and English Literature) from Concordia University. www.LindsaySoberano.com
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Introduction by the Author
Casa de mi Corazón: A Travel Journal of Poetry and Memoir, is the journey of a young, Jewish Canadian woman who feels like a wandering Jewess traveling to Israel and Germany to learn more about her culture and roots. As the granddaughter of Spanish Moroccan Jewish immigrants and Romanian Holocaust survivors, this Toronto native, navigates various landscapes of the past and present through poetry, dramatic monologue and memoir to explore the diaspora, Israel, the Holocaust, anti-Semitism, terrorism and Zionism. Through confronting history, she brings healing to the intergenerational trauma, while expressing the need for Jewish self-determination and hope for peace in Israel. Eventually, the search for home, leads her to discover that, whether in Israel, or in Toronto, home is where the heart is.
Book Review
Sample Poem
Tikkun Olam
Sometimes you lock your heart inside a dank passage
you forgot you had and then you stumble upon it
~ a dusty old book ~
at once you’re hooked
to a long-forgotten oath
Is this what it means to be woke?
from a dream
a whimsical dream
like a shell of laborious protection
I was sleeping in between
I see myself in the reflection
merging
fragmented glass
to find some spirit that goes by the name of
tikkun olam
in the shambles that tell a story from my lair
of protection
nurturing the new baby
born out of necessity
My baby
My life
My rebirth
Reincarnation
Sounds like a mantra
of bel cantos...
Feed me before I feed you
Feed me like I feed you
Feed me too
Feed
Me. Too.
*Tikkun Olam is a belief in Jewish mysticism that
through social justice the world can be healed.
One
They all seem to think that they are obeying the call of duty
Don’t they know that the only duties to be called upon are
Gandhi's doctrine
Lennon’s “Imagine”
Marley’s “Redemption”
Haven’t they figured out that we are all One
and the same like
The Trinity
The Star of David
The pilgrimage to Mecca
Don’t they know that there is only One who cradles us,
But communicates to us in different scriptures.
Why don’t they know?
Excerpt from:
Kaleidoscopic Views of Toronto and Israel:
A Travel Memoir
The desert changed as swiftly as Israel’s political climate. The desert also changed as swiftly as my viewpoint — almost like looking through a kaleidoscope. It transformed from ugly to beautiful and from beautiful to ugly right before my eyes. Some days I looked at her in disgust: the wind howled and made the windows shake. If I opened the window, hot air and mucky desert dust would blow in. While I was in Israel I could not help but realize that even the views I hold of her were surely destined to change as swiftly as the weather. Because when I looked back at the limited perspective I used to have of Israel, I knew that this time was not any different. There was still so much to learn. But, what I did know was that for a 25-year-old, I had discovered a lot. I know that nothing is black and white. I just hope that others can adopt this technique when passing judgment on Israel because too many people judge her before taking the time to get to know her.
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