Unsettling America: An Anthology of Contemporary Multicultural Poetry

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.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Penguin Books
Published: 11/01/1994
ISBN: 9780140237788
Pages: 432
Weight: 1.02lbs
Size: 8.90h x 6.00w x 0.90d

Review Citations: School Library Journal 05/01/1995 pg. 137
Booklist 10/01/1994 pg. 232
Library Journal 09/15/1994 pg. 74
Publishers Weekly 09/26/1994 pg. 57
Booklist Ed Choice Adu Bk YA's 01/15/1995 pg. 858