What They Bring: The Poetry of Migration and Immigration

This is an anthology of poems by outstanding poets of diverse backgrounds (age gender race ethnicity religion disability sexuality etc.) from the U. S. and elsewhere in the world. While the timeliness of the theme would suggest that its purpose is political it is only incidentally so.xnbsp; Actually it has the same aim as psychoanalysis: catharsis through emotional understanding that can lead to transformative change.Although many poets have written about their personal experience as immigrants and that of their parents and grandparents no single book of poems captures the experience of a diversity of cultures.xnbsp; For this book we have gathered Israeli Palestinian African-American Hungarian German Hispanic Indian Pakistani Chinese Japanese Native American Jewish Christian Muslim.xnbsp; The poems reveal a range of experiences from welcoming to hostile.