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| Two-Countries
ISBN: 9781597095723
Platform/Publisher: Project MUSE / Red Hen Press
Digital rights: Users: Unlimited; Printing: Chapters; Download: Chapters
Subjects: American literature; Emigration and immigration; American literature; Children of immigrants; Immigrants'' writings American.;
The IPPY Award-winning anthology of poetry, memoir, and essays--"accounts of assimilation and nostalgia, celebration and resistance" (Rick Barot, author of The Galleons ).
This collection contains contributions from sixty-five writers who were either born and/or raised in the United States by one or more immigrant parent. Their work describes the many contradictions, discoveries and life lessons one experiences when one is neither seen as fully American nor fully foreign. Contributors include Richard Blanco, Tina Chang, Joseph Lagaspi, Li-Young Lee, Timothy Liu, Naomi Shihab Nye, Oliver de la Paz, Ira Sukrungruang, Ocean Vuong, and many other talented writers from throughout the United States.
Winner of a Bronze Medal from the Independent Publisher Book Awards for Multicultural Nonfiction
"When you hold in your DNA two countries--the cultures, the languages, the delicious foods and stories--you embody richness. These writers know on the cellular level many-layered ways to live, to struggle, to love. Here are voices we need to hear, writers we need to read. This is a brilliant, timely book, an antidote to divisiveness." --Peggy Shumaker, former Alaska State Writer Laureate
"The poets and writers in T wo-Countries show that one result of our ongoing national experiment is a rich deepening in our literature. We may be in perilous times as a country, but our writers have never been in more ferocious health." --Rick Barot, author of The Galleons
Tina Schumann is the author of three poetry collections, As If (Parlor City Press, 2010), which was awarded the Stephen Dunn Poetry Prize, Requiem: A Patrimony of Fugues (Diode Editions, 2017), which won the 2016 Diode Editions chapbook competition, and Praising the Paradox (Red Hen Press, 2019). Her work was a finalist in the National Poetry Series, Four Way Books Intro Prize and the New Issues Prize. She is the recipient of the 2009 American Poet Prize from The American Poetry Journal and a Pushcart nominee. Her poems have appeared widely in publications and anthologies since 1999 including The American Journal of Poetry, Ascent, Cimarron Review, Crab Creek Review, Midwest Quarterly, Nimrod, Palabra, Parabola, Poemeleon, Poetry International , Terrian.org, and the Yale Journal for Humanities in Medicine . Read more about Tina at www.tinaschumann.com |
