Anita Lerek was born in Warsaw, Poland to exhausted Jewish survivors of the Holocaust. Unable to gain entry to the United States, the family created a new life in Canada. She has always lived and written through the filter of the ‘other’. Hence in ‘Refugee Blues’ the conflation of German-Jewish and Somali outsiders. Hence the question posed in ‘Tondo Politique’: Who dares to ‘read’ the outsider. As Lerek puts it, “You are always the same flower.” A lawyer (non-practising) and entrepreneur, she is a publishing late-bloomer, with recent/forthcoming poem credits here in River Heron, as well as in Offcourse, Verse-Virtual, and Poetry Super Highway (Poet of the Week). She resides with her archivist husband in Toronto.
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