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Unsettling America: An Anthology of Contemporary Multicultural Poetry Paperback - 1994
by Maria Mazziotti Gillan (Editor); Jennifer Gillan (Editor)
With extraordinary honesty, dignity, and insight, an impressive array of poets displace the myths and stereotypes that pervade our culture. The first multicultural poetry anthology to give voice to the lives and experiences of ethnic Americans.
Summary
A multicultural array of poets explore what it is means to be American
This powerful and moving collection of poems stretches across the boundaries of skin color, language, ethnicity, and religion to give voice to the lives and experiences of ethnic Americans. With extraordinary honesty, dignity, and insight, these poems address common themes of assimilation, communication, and self-perception. In recording everyday life in our many American cultures, they displace the myths and stereotypes that pervade our culture.
Unsettling America includes work by:
Amiri Baraka
Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
Rita Dove
Louise Erdich
Jessica Hagedorn
Joy Harjo
Garrett Hongo
Li-Young Lee
Pat Mora
Naomi Shihab Nye
Marye Percy
Ishmael Reed
Alberto Rios
Ntozake Shange
Gary Soto
Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Nellie Wong
David Hernandez
Mary TallMountain
...and many more.
This powerful and moving collection of poems stretches across the boundaries of skin color, language, ethnicity, and religion to give voice to the lives and experiences of ethnic Americans. With extraordinary honesty, dignity, and insight, these poems address common themes of assimilation, communication, and self-perception. In recording everyday life in our many American cultures, they displace the myths and stereotypes that pervade our culture.
Unsettling America includes work by:
Amiri Baraka
Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
Rita Dove
Louise Erdich
Jessica Hagedorn
Joy Harjo
Garrett Hongo
Li-Young Lee
Pat Mora
Naomi Shihab Nye
Marye Percy
Ishmael Reed
Alberto Rios
Ntozake Shange
Gary Soto
Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Nellie Wong
David Hernandez
Mary TallMountain
...and many more.
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- Title Unsettling America: An Anthology of Contemporary Multicultural Poetry
- Author Maria Mazziotti Gillan (Editor); Jennifer Gillan (Editor)
- Binding Paperback
- Edition [ Edition: Repri
- Pages 432
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Penguin Books, E Rutherford, New Jersey, U.S.A
- Date 1994-11-01
- ISBN 9780140237788 / 014023778X
- Weight 1.02 lbs (0.46 kg)
- Dimensions 8.9 x 6 x 0.9 in (22.61 x 15.24 x 2.29 cm)
- Ages 18 to UP years
- Grade levels 13 - UP
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Themes
- Ethnic Orientation: African American
- Library of Congress subjects American poetry - 20th century, Minorities - United States - Poetry
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 94-722
- Dewey Decimal Code 811.540
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Citations
- Booklist, 10/01/1994, Page 232
- Booklist Ed Choice Adu Bk YA's, 01/15/1995, Page 858
- Library Journal, 09/15/1994, Page 74
- Publishers Weekly, 09/26/1994, Page 57
- School Library Journal, 05/01/1995, Page 137
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