Unsettling America

A multicultural array of poets explore what it is means to be American _x000D_

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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._x000D_

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Unsettling America includes work by:_x000D_

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Amiri Baraka_x000D_

Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni_x000D_

Rita Dove_x000D_

Louise Erdich_x000D_

Jessica Hagedorn_x000D_

Joy Harjo_x000D_

Garrett Hongo_x000D_

Li-Young Lee_x000D_

Pat Mora_x000D_

Naomi Shihab Nye_x000D_

Marye Percy_x000D_

Ishmael Reed_x000D_

Alberto Rios_x000D_

Ntozake Shange_x000D_

Gary Soto_x000D_

Lawrence Ferlinghetti_x000D_

Nellie Wong_x000D_

David Hernandez_x000D_

Mary TallMountain