Dreaming America: Voices of Undocumented Youth in Maximum-Security Detention (English and Spanish Edition) - Softcover

Seth Michelson; Editor

Softcover

ISBN 10: 098594689X ISBN 13: 9780985946890

Publisher: Settlement House, 2017

Synopsis

With a preface by Jimmy Santiago Baca, Dreaming America: Voices of Undocumented Youth in Maximum-Security Detention is a bi-lingual (Spanish/English) collection of poems by children ages 13¬ 17 in maximum-security detention. The crimes of these teens: Entering the United States without papers. The poems were composed in weekly writing workshops devised by poet Seth Michelson over the past two years. Edited by Michelson, and with a preface by Jimmy Santiago Baca, Dreaming America is a gesture of hospitality, an invitation to Americans to share in the lives of children who believe in the United States as a land of hope. These young people are facing prolonged detention and deportation but U.S. federal law does not guarantee them the right to appointed counsel. Settlement House Books will donate proceeds from book sales to the nonprofit legal representation of these children.

About this edition

• Publisher: Settlement House
• Publication date: 2017
• ISBN 10: 098594689X
• ISBN 13: 9780985946890
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 110