Unsettling America

<b>A multicultural array of poets explore what it is means to be American </b> <p/>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. <p/><i>Unsettling America</i> includes work by: <p/>Amiri Baraka<br>Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni<br>Rita Dove<br>Louise Erdich<br>Jessica Hagedorn<br>Joy Harjo<br>Garrett Hongo<br>Li-Young Lee<br>Pat Mora<br>Naomi Shihab Nye<br>Marye Percy<br>Ishmael Reed<br>Alberto Rios<br>Ntozake Shange<br>Gary Soto<br>Lawrence Ferlinghetti<br>Nellie Wong<br>David Hernandez<br>Mary TallMountain <p/>...and many more.