American tensions : literature of identity and the search for social justice : stories, poems, and essays addressing the most pressing issues of our time /

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"American Tensions is an anthology of American poetry, short-fiction, and non-fiction that explores issues of identity, environmental justice, and social change in the United States. Comprised of pieces from 1980 to 2010, the work addresses the shifting perspectives and changing role of writing...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Reichard, William, 1963- (Editor ), Kooser, Ted (writer of foreword.)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Oakland, CA : New Village Press, 2011.
Temas:
Social problems > United States > Literary collections.
Social justice > United States > Literary collections.
Group identity > United States > Literary collections.
Problèmes sociaux > États-Unis > Anthologies.
Justice sociale > États-Unis > Anthologies.
Identité collective > États-Unis > Anthologies.
LITERARY CRITICISM > American > General.
Group identity
Social justice
Social problems
United States
Literary collections
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgments; Foreword; Introduction; Section One: The Lives Weâ#x80;#x99;re Given, The Lives We Make; Future Home of the Living God; Speaking of Names; The Machinist, Teaching His Daughter to Play the Piano; Work; Keats; Shiloh; Bastard Out of Carolina (an excerpt); The Root Woman; The Smell of Snake; Trestle; In Winter; Straddling Fences; At the Galleria; Dialectical Materialism; The Floristâ#x80;#x99;s Daughter (an excerpt); Other Meaning; Seven Fragments (found inside my father); Father Outside; Good to Go; Man On The TV Say; Only Everything I Own.
  • InconvenientWhat To Tweak; Golden Rule Days; 00/Line/Steel/Train (excerpts); Lessons; Lincoln Avenue; Resolution; Undoing; Manikin; Avoidance; Said to Sarah, Ten; Trans; Aaron at Work/Rain; Hymns to Nanan; Section Two: That Which Holds Us Together, That Which Pulls Us Apart; An Atlas of the Difficult World (excerpts); Speaking English Is Like; Uses for Spanish in Pittsburgh; Grocery Shopping with My Girlfriend Who Is Not Asian; Speaking Spanish Is Like; Indian Education; The History of My Shoes and the Evolution of Darwinâ#x80;#x99;s Theory (excerpts); Fugue; Overture: Watermelon City.
  • Observation Post #71Here, Bullet; AB Negative; Night in Blue; Praise the Tortilla, Praise Menudo, Praise Chorizo; The Magnets; These Days; I Didnâ#x80;#x99;t Sleep; Bagram, Afghanistan, 2002; Messy; Poem Postâ#x80;#x94;9/11/01; First Generation Angels; The Young Asian Women; Father Blues for Jon Jang; Minneapolis Public; Under the Influence; Guidelines for the Treatment of Sacred Objects; The Theft Outright; Butter Maiden and Maize Girl Survive Death Leap; The Lone Reader and Tonchee Fistfight in Pages; Charlie Howardâ#x80;#x99;s Descent; Tiara; Homo Will Not Inherit; Beginners; Art Lessons.
  • Toward a Portrait of the UndocumentedBlasphemous Elegy for May 14, 2003; The Rain, the Rez, and Other Things; Autobiography of My Alter Ego (excerpts); 1959, Loomis Avenue; Akhenaten; The Glue That Held Everything Together; Spirit Car: Journey to a Dakota Past (excerpt); Conjuring War; Falling Man; But at the Church; Polygutteral; Burnt Offering: Mid-November; Frozen in the Sky; The Secret to Life in America; Section Three: The Edge of the Worldâ#x80;#x94;The Contemporary Environment; Culture, Biology, and Emergence; Designer Genes; So Much Like A Beach After All; It Is Fair To Be Crossing.
  • Not Getting Tired of the EarthBetween Now and Then; Lone Tree, 1986; continental divide; cancer inside the little sea; Cloudy Is the Stuff of Stones; Humble; Rapture; The Radiant; The Night Constant; Waterfront Property; Alice & Emily, Diana & Dunes; Rights and Permissions; Contributors; About the Editor; About the Type.

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