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Unsettling America: an anthology of contemporary multicultural poetry
Publisher
Penguin Books
Publication Date
1994.
Language
English
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Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Uprooting: -- Where is my country? -- Dreams in Harrison Railroad Park / Nellie Wong -- Heavy blue veins -- We never stopped crossing borders / Luis J Rodriguez -- Wired In -- Such a boat of land / Lamont B Steptoe -- Immigrants in our own land / Jimmy Santiago Baca -- We are Americans now, we live in the Tundra / Marilyn Chin -- Elena / Pat Mora -- What were you patching? / Ruth Lisa Schechter -- In Texas Grass / Quincy Troupe -- Old Italians dying / Lawrence Ferlinghetti -- Dust world / Adrian C Louis -- Father from Asia / Shirley Geok-lin Lim -- from Moving / Hamod (Sam) -- Katori Maru, October 1920 / James Masao Mitsui -- Restroom -- Brides come to Yuba City / Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni -- Grandmother, a Caribbean Indian, described by my father / Yvonne V Sapia -- Indian Boarding School: the runaways / Louise Erdrich -- Braly Street / Gary Soto -- Woman hanging from the thirteenth floor window / Joy Harjo -- Kinged / Shalin Hai-Jew -- Dream poem / Mary Jo Bona -- Last wolf / Mary TallMountain -- Tattoo / Gregg Shapiro -- Father of my father / Lawson Fusao Inada -- Letter to a Cretan flute-maker / Justin Vitiello -- What do I know of journey / David Meltzer -- When my grandmother said "pussy" / Carole Bernstein -- 14th Street was gutted in 1968 / Cheryl Clarke -- Walking by the cliffside dye works / Robert Carnevale -- Old buildings / Pedro Pietri -- In response to Executive Order 9066 -- Nice thing about counting stars / Dwight Okita -- Next year, in Jerusalem / Shirley Kaufman -- Survivor / Philip Levine -- Sam / Lucille Clifton -- Performing: -- Indian movie, New Jersey / Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni -- Dear John Wayne / Louise Erdrich -- When I was growing up / Nellie Wong -- Doreen / Janice Mirikitani -- Failure of an invention / Safiya Henderson-Holmes -- Today was a bad day like TB / Chrystos -- Filipino boogie / Jessica Hagedorn -- Indian blood / Mary TallMountain -- At the electronic frontier / Miguel Algarin -- Vision (2) -- Translated from the American / Sherman Alexie -- Imitation of life -- Black and white galaxie -- Blind Solo / Michael S Weaver -- Mafioso / Sandra Mortola Gilbert -- Digging in the streets of gold / Barry Seiler -- Matinee -- Deer cloud / Susan Clements -- Can't Tell / Nellie Wong -- Amazone / Mary Jo Bona -- Blonde white women / Patricia Smith -- Cincinnati -- American son / Mitsuye Yamada -- Why I don't speak Italian / Arthur L Clements -- First / Grace Cavalieri -- Brain on ice: the El train poem -- Malcolm is 'bout more than wearing a cap / Michael Warr -- American dream: first report / Joseph Papaleo -- Behaving like a Jew / Gerald Stern -- Mary Morelle Show / Denise Nico Leto -- To H N / David Mura -- My rich uncle, whom I only met three times / Marge Piercy -- Untitled blues / Yusef Komunyakaa -- Second class citizen / Jennifer Lagier -- Three gypsies / Shalin Hai-Jew -- from Sweet Daddy -- What it's like to be a black girl (for those of you who aren't) / Patricia Smith -- Starlight haven -- Black and white / Shirley Geok-lin Lim -- Barrio Beateo / Jesse F Garcia -- Welcome / David Hernandez -- Tee -- Big chill variations -- Albert James / Reuben Jackson -- Daddy poem / William J Harris -- Song No 3 / Sonia Sanchez -- Song at midnight / Lucille Clifton -- Junior high dance / Allison Joseph -- What would I do white? / June Jordan -- So Mexicans are taking jobs from Americans / Jimmy Santiago Baca -- Poet: what ever happened to Luther? / Haki R Madhubuti -- That great wingless bird / Adrian C Louis -- Immigrants -- Depression days / Pat Mora -- Note on my son's face -- Blackbottom / Toi Derricotte -- Lost name woman / Shirley Geok-lin Lim -- Coca-Cola and Coco Frio / Martin Espada -- Senora X no more / Pat Mora -- Dying with the wrong name -- Leaves / Hamod (Sam) -- How I got that name -- Elegy for Chloe Nguyen / Marilyn Chin -- Niggerlips -- From an island you cannot name / Martin Espada -- Mama, come back / Nellie Wong -- On the road to Damascus, Maryland / Enid Dame -- How I changed my name, Felice / Felix Stefanile -- Jade / Janice Mirikitani -- Being Jewish in a small town / Lyn Lifshin -- We exist / Janice Gould -- Jacket notes / Ishmael Reed -- Having the wrong name for Mr Wright / Helen Barolini -- Taking it back -- Pinon nuts / Dixie Salazar -- Hula skirt, 1959 / Kimiko Hahn -- Song of the third generation / Julia Lisella -- Ka 'Ba -- Funk lore / Amiri Baraka -- American Sonnets for my father / Daniela Gioseffi -- Pigeons / David Hernandez -- Poem about Intelligence for my brothers and sisters / June Jordan -- For talking / Denise Nico Leto -- Language of great-aunts -- Nani / Alberto Alvaro Rios -- Espresso / Carol Lee Saffioti -- Secret love / Milton Kessler -- Good grease / Mary TallMountain -- 6th Grade: Our Lady of Pompeii / Vittoria repetto -- Mama / Claire Kageyama -- Preparations for Seder -- Changing address books / Michael S Glaser -- Crazy Horse Monument / Peter Blue Cloud -- from Prose Poems / Liz Rosenberg -- In answer to their questions / Giovanna (Janet) Capone -- All I want / Luci Tapahonso -- Two Grandmas / Stanley H Barkan -- South Bronx testimonial / Sandra Maria Esteves -- Grandma in the shower / Dale M Kushner -- Haciendo Apenas la Recoleccion / Tino Villanueva -- On Alabama Ave, Paterson, NJ, 1954 / Rachel Guido deVries -- From Okra to greens / Ntozake Shange -- But my blood -- So I lost my temper / Rose Romano -- For my Great-Grandfather: a message long overdue / Maxine Kumin -- Bulosan listens to a recording of Robert Johnson / Alfred Encarnacion -- Miss Clement's second grade / Maryfrances Cusumano Wagner -- Recognized futures / Lisa Suhair Majaj -- Left Bank Jazz Society / Michael S Weaver -- Blood / Naomi Shihab Nye -- Mnemonic -- Gift / Li-Young Lee -- Nikki-Rosa -- Legacies / Nikki Giovanni -- Because of my father's job / James Masao Mitsui -- Yuba City School / Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni -- How I learned English / Gregory Djanikian --
Negotiating:
In the elementary school choir
When I first saw snow / Gregory Djanikian
Black hair
Elements of San Joaquin
Behind Grandma's House / Gary Soto
Always Running
Fire / Luis J Rodriguez
Dancing / Gerald Stern
In memory we are walking / Maria Mazziotti Gillan
I remember Haifa being lovely but / Lyn Lifshin
Black man's sonata
Improvisation for piano / Michael S Weaver
Winnings / Garrett Hongo
Susans
Reservation / Susan Clements
English-speaking persons will find translations / Michael S Glaser
Crazy Horse speaks
Powwow polaroid / Sherman Alexie
Soul make a path through shouting / Cyrus Cassells
Battle, over and over again / Safiya Henderson-Holmes
Story about chicken soup / Louis Simpson
Salt / Yusef Komunyakaa
Something about being an Indian / Adrian C Louis
Poem for the young white man who asked me how I, an intelligent, well-read person, could believe in the war between races / Lorna Dee Cervantes
Election time / Lamont B Steptoe
Bicentennial anti-poem for Italian-American Women / Daniela Gioseffi
Yahrtzeit light
After the anti-Semitic calls on a local talk station / Lyn Lifshin
Agony-as now / Amiri Baraka
Notes for a poem on being Asian American / Dwight Okita
Portrait of assimilation / Chrystos
Jewish singles event / Stewart Florsheim
Coming of age / Michael Palma
At the nuclear rally
Candy lady / Laura Boss
My father and the figtree / Naomi Shihab Nye
Half-breed / Cherrie Moraga
Modern Secrets / Shirley Geok-lin Lim
Grandfather at the Indian health clinic / Elizabeth Cook-Lynn
Birdfoot's Grampa / Joseph Bruchac
Undressing Aunt Frieda / Richard Michelson
Rib Sandwich / William J Harris
Going home / Wing Tek Lum
Upkeep/ Miriam Goodman
Armitage street / David Hernandez
Laughing gas / Ruth Whitman
Elegy / Arthur L Clements
Foreign ways / Diana Chang
Autobiography / Robert Viscusi
Horse / Gloria Anzaldua
Travels in the South / Simon J Ortiz
Grandmother / Grace Cavalieri
Living alone with Jesus / Maxine Kumin
Sweaters / Lucia Maria Perillo
Heritage / Linda Hogan
Lakota sister/Cherokee mother / Victoria Lena Manyarrows
Wingfoot lake / Rita Dove
After the funeral of Assam Hamady / Hamod (Sam)
Friendly town #1
My first riot: Bronx, NYC / Safiya Henderson-Holmes
Truth is / Linda Hogan
Hanging fire /Audre Lorde
In the way back / Debi Kang Dean
Cultures / Gloria Anzaldua
Re-Envisioning:
I ask my mother to sing / Li-Young Lee
I walk in the history of my people
I have not signed a treaty with the United States Government
Real Indian leans against / Chrystos
Night vision
In the inner city / Lucille Clifton
House on Moscow street / Marilyn Nelson Waniek
To Jesus Villanueva, with love
Didn't get me
My people are the color of the earth / Alma Luz Villanueva
From a heart of rice straw / Nellie Wong
April fool birthday poem for Grandpa / Diane di Prima
Bully / Martin Espada
Anchorage
For Alva Benson, and for those who have learned to speak / Joy Harjo
Chinese hot pot / Wing Tek Lum
Selder / Enid Dame
Bucket / Rose Romano
Speaking with hands / Luis J Rodriguez
Song: I want a witness / Michael S Harper
In the Good old U S A / Jose Angel Villalongo, Sr
Today we will not be invisible nor silent / Victoria Lena Manyarrows
View from skates in Berkeley / Quincy Trope
I defy you / Shirley Geok-lin Lim
Prayer / Joseph Bruchac
Lamenting the inevitable / Alicia Ostriker
Speaking through white: for my mother / Kyoko Mori
Certificate of live birth / Kimberly M Blaeser
Cortez's horse / Pat Mora
Oye mundo/sometimes / Jesus Papoleto Melendez
Men / E Ethelbert Miller
New apartment: Minneapolis / Linda Hogan
Dance for Ma Rainey / Al Young
I ain't going to hurry no more / Jesse F Garcia
Praise the tortilla, praise the Menudo, praise the chorizo / Ray Gonzalez
Last word / Amina Baraka
Martin and my father / David Hernandez
My ringless fingers on the steering wheel tell the story / Laura Boss
Women / Cyrus Cassells
I am singing now / Luci Tapahonso
To Hell and back, with cake
Friendly town # 3 / Safiya Henderson-Holmes
Out of our hands / Cathy Song
Old man's lazy / Peter Blue Cloud
America / Robert Creeley
Naayawva Taawi
Story keeper / Wendy Rose
Upside down basket / Alan Chong Lau
La Migra / Pat Mora
What the gypsy said to her children / Judith Ortiz Cofer
Floral apron / Marilyn Chin
I give you back / Joy Harjo
For the color of my mother / Cherrie Moraga
Present
Norma
Anthem / Sonia Sanchez
Arturo
Public school no 18: Paterson, New Jersey Growing up Italian / Maria Mazziotti Gillan
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9781439509333
9780140237788
014023778
9780670851706
9780140237788
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