Unsettling America

A multicultural array of poets explore what it is means to be American 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. Unsettling America includes work by: Amiri Baraka

Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

Rita Dove

Louise Erdich

Jessica Hagedorn

Joy Harjo

Garrett Hongo

Li-Young Lee

Pat Mora

Naomi Shihab Nye

Marye Percy

Ishmael Reed

Alberto Rios

Ntozake Shange

Gary Soto

Lawrence Ferlinghetti

Nellie Wong

David Hernandez

Mary TallMountain ...and many more.