Identity Lessons: Contemporary Writing About Learning to Be American
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ISBN-13: | 9781101144176 |
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Publisher: | Penguin Publishing Group |
Publication date: | 02/01/1999 |
Sold by: | Penguin Group |
Format: | eBook |
Pages: | 400 |
File size: | 644 KB |
Age Range: | 18 Years |
About the Author
Table of Contents
IntroductionI. Family Primer I
Names - Ruth Stone
Pokeberries - Ruth Stone
Beets - Tiffany Midge
Magnalia Christi Americana - T.H.S. Wallace
daughters - Lucille Clifton
fury - Lucille Clifton
Dear Mama - Sonia Sanchez
Linked - Naomi Shihab Nye
I Go Back to May 1937 - Sharon Olds
The Portrait - Stanley Kunitz
Cracked Portraits - Agha Shahid Ali
Those Were the Days - Philip Levine
The Substitute - Stephen Dunn
The Liar - Tobias Wolff
Daddy, We Called You - Maria Mazziotti Gillan
Sangre 24: A Legacy - Leroy V. Quintana
Working Class - Lenard D. Moore
from attic - Justin Vitiello
Always Running - Luis J. Rodríguez
Company Outing - Diane Der-Hovanessian
Tending - Elizabeth Alexander
I cannot write a poem to bless all the givers of pain - Honorée Jeffers
II. Family Primer II
Family - Grace Paley
Why the Violin Is Better - Hal Sirowitz
My Aunts - Anthony Valerio
My Son Is Worried About Me - Laura Boss
The Word You Did Not Speak - Vivian Shipley
Words for My Daughter from the Asylum - Hayden Carruth
My Mad Son Helps Me Into Heaven - Arthur L. Clements
The Children - Diane di Prima
Mother's Voice - Robert Creeley
Singing Lessons - Rochelle Ratner
photo poem - Vittoria repetto
Saying Farewell to My Father - James P. Handlin
The BirthdayAugust 25, 1980 - Edgar Gabriel Silex
Late - Terrance Hayes
Hotel Nights with My Mother - Linda McCarriston
Legacy - Stephen Dunn
Apples - Shirley Kaufman
Day Worker - Lamont B. Steptoe
Breakfast - Yictove
Shelling Shrimp - Lê Thi Diem Thúy
The Last Lesson - Toni Libro
Poem for My Father - Quincy Troupe
Sports Heroes, Cops, and Lace - Michael Lally
III. Calling Roll
The Riddle of Noah - Maxine Kumin
Baptisms - Joseph Bruchac
Freedom Candy - E. Ethelbert Miller
The Boots of Alfred Bettingdorf - Daniel Gabriel
Say What? - Amiri Baraka
Sangre 14: Sterling, Colorado - Leroy V. Quintana
The Loss of a Culture - Antonio D'Alfonso
Coffee- Wanda Coleman
Horns on Your Head - Hal Sirowitz
The Middle Classes - Lynne Sharon Schwartz
Right Off the Bat - Leslea Newman
French Girls Are Fast - Cheryl Savageau
My Rough Skinned Grandmother - Tina Chang
Kemo Sabe - Diane Glancy
Dictionary of Terminology - Tony Medina
A New Story - SImon J. Ortiz
IV. Pledging Allegiance
The Poets - Afaa M. Weaver
Seven Horses - Marge Piercy
The Last Wild Horses in Kentucky - Vivian Shipley
Learning Silence - Maria Mazziotti Gillan
Home Training - Bruce A. Jacobs
Half-Breed's Song - Adrian C. Louis
Mestizo - Alfred Encarnacion
Tangerine - Susan Deer Cloud Clements
Between Holi and Halloween - Beena Kamlani
Strange Country - Julie Parson-Nesbitt
Roomers, rumors - Marge Piercy
Language Difficulties - Kathryn Nocerino
The Welcome Table - Lee Martin
High School: San Martin - Renny Christopher
On the Subway - Sharon Olds
V. School Daze
In the Elementary School Choir - Gregory Djanikian
Sixth Grade - Marie Howe
The Jacket - Gary Soto
Ladies' Choice - Tony Ardizzone
As Children Together - Carolyn Forché
The Silence That Widened - Tom Romano
Caroline - Allison Joseph
Poem for Anthony, Otherwise Known as Head - Sean Thomas Dougherty
from Personal and Impersonal Landscapes - Diane Wakoski
The Dance at St. Gabriel's - Felix Stefanile
Yellow Roses - Lyn Lifshin
High School Reunion - Denise Duhamel
The Story of My Life - Liz Rosenberg
Wearing of the Green - Anthony F. Bruno
The Boy Without a Flag - Abraham Rodriguez Jr.
Early Snow - Dona Luongo Stein
Butch Traynor - Michael S. Glaser
The Weird Kid - Mark Vinz
Sterling Williams' Nosebleed - David Chin
Losing Faith - Mary McLaughlin Slechta
Altar Boy - Charles Rossiter
School of Night - Toi Derricotte
No Consolation - Robert Phillips
The Way of the Cross - Len Roberts
VI. Learning by Rote
Teaching English from an Old Composition Book - Gary Soto
Among Children - Philip Levine
Our Room - Molly Peacock
Chinese in Academia - Shirely Geok-lin Lim
For Sal Sanjamino: On His Retirement - Stanley H. Barkan
Poem on the First Day of School - Peter Cooley
Big World, Little Man - William Stafford
A Long Way - Ralph Salisbury
The First Day - Edward P. Jones
Pennies - David Ray
Shame - Francisco X. Alarcón
Disc 'n Dat - Grace Cavalieri
The Captain of the Safeties - Maria Fama
Senior Will - David Haynes
VII. Our Bodies, Ourselves
My Father's Love Letters - Yusef Komunyakaa
Mortal Sins - Maureen Seaton
Training Bra - Maria Mazziotti Gillan
The One Girl at the Boys' Party - Sharon Olds
The Boy - Marie Howe
Practicing - Marie Howe
from Drops of This Story - Suheir Hammad
Playing with Dolls - David Trinidad
Rice and Beans - Rafael Campo
Defining Us - Rafael Campo
Imagining Drag - Rafael Campo
Choice in Colored Rain - Lisa Yun
Graffiti - Margie Norris
The Girls - Diane Wakoski
Aunt Dorothy - Laura Boss
Aunt Rose - Laura Boss
The Accordion - Rachel Guido deVries
Uncle Earl and Guns - Walt McDonald
Legacy - Chris Kennedy
The Politics of Buddy - Leslea Newman
"You know what I'm saying?" - Allen Ginsberg
The Robe - Afaa M. Weaver
Acupuncture and Cleansing at Forty-eight - Len Roberts
VIII. Beyond Dick and Jane
Garden State - Allen Ginsberg
Thelonious - Afaa M. Weaver
Robin's Nest - Janice Eidus
Real Life - Mary Ann Mannino
Jetties Were the Bridges I Crossed - Nancy Mercado
Rock'n'Roll - M.L. Liebler
Sally - Frank Finale
Painting the Christmas Trees - Joe E. Weil
City Lights - Diane di Prima
There I Was One Day - Gerald Stern
An American in Trapani - Nat Scammacca
Made You Mine, America - Ali Zarrin
Ode to Elizabeth - Joe E. Weil
from Krik? Krak! - Edwidge Danticat
from This Past Decade and the Next - Eliot Katz
Second-Grade Angel - Len Roberts
Miz Rosa Rides the Bus - Angela Jackson
The Summer of Black Widows - Sherman Alexie
Tourists - Sherman Alexie
Like Mexicans - Gary Soto
American Milk - Ruth Stone
Contributors
Index