From Dirt Paths to Golden Streets

<SPAN style=FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA>The poems in this book are the personal stories of immigration to the United States from the 19th Century to the early 21st Century.<SPAN style=mso-spacerun: yes>  </SPAN>These poems are often in the voices of New Americans from many different cultures:<SPAN style=mso-spacerun: yes>  </SPAN>African Arab Hungarian Japanese Korean Mexican Polish Russian and Vietnamese.<SPAN style=mso-spacerun: yes>  </SPAN>The poems explore their reasons for immigration as well as the challenges and benefits of becoming American.</SPAN>