Star-Spangled Banner.
The Star-Spangled Banner, Denise Duhamel's sixth book of poems, is about falling in love, American-style, with someone who is not American. In the title poem, a small American girl mishears the first line of ""The Star-Spangled Banner"" as ""José, can you see?&quo...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Southern Illinois University Press,
1999.
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Colección: | Crab Orchard award series in poetry.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Sumario: | The Star-Spangled Banner, Denise Duhamel's sixth book of poems, is about falling in love, American-style, with someone who is not American. In the title poem, a small American girl mishears the first line of ""The Star-Spangled Banner"" as ""José, can you see?"", which leads her to imagine a foreign lover of an American woman dressed in a star-spangled gown. The misunderstandings caused by language recur throughout the book: contemplating what ""yes"" means in different cultures; watching Nickelodeon's ""Nick at Nite"" with a husband who grew up in the. |
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Descripción Física: | 1 online resource |
ISBN: | 1299050875 9781299050877 9780809383320 0809383322 |