Unsettling America: An Anthology of Contemporary Multicultural Poetry - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 014023778X ISBN 13: 9780140237788

Publisher: Penguin, 1994

Synopsis

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.

About this title

About the Author:

Maria Mazziotti Gillan is an awardwinning poet and instructor whose volumes of poetry include Where I Come From, Things My Mother Told Me, and What We Pass On: Collected Poems 1980-2009. Her work has been appeared in a number of publications, including Boderlands, Prairie Schooner, Los Angeles Review, the Christian Science Monitor, and the New York Times. She is the director of the creative writing program at Binghampton University--State University of New York and the executive director of the Poetry Center at Passaic County Community College.

Jennifer Gillan is a professor of English and Media Studies at Bentley University. Her other books include Television & New Media: Must-Click TV, Understanding Reality TV, and Identity Lessons, coedited with Maria Mazziotti Gillan.

About this edition

• Publisher: Penguin
• Publication date: 1994
• ISBN 10: 014023778X
• ISBN 13: 9780140237788
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 422
• Editor: Gillan Jennifer, Gillan Maria