“We pay for borders with everything"
An interview with Russ McSpadden about his debut poetry collection, Borderlings.
When Russ McSpadden was a child growing up in a military family stationed in Germany, his father brought him a piece of the Berlin Wall. At the time McSpadden didn’t understand the political meaning of the piece of concrete, but he could see in the adults around him that the wall’s destruction had come with feelings of joy and liberation.
