How to love a country : poems /
"The diverse poems in this collection form a mosaic of seemingly varied topics: the Pulse Nightclub massacre; an unexpected encounter on a visit to Cuba; the forced exile of 8,500 Navajos in 1868; the arrival of a young Chinese woman at Angel Island in 1938; the incarceration of a gifted writer...
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Boston :
Beacon Press,
[2019]
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Table of Contents:
- Election year
- Dreaming a wall
- Complaint of El Rio Grande
- Como tu/Like you/Like me
- Staring at Aspens: a history lesson
- Letter from Yi Cheung
- Leaving in the rain: Limerick, Ireland
- Island body
- What we didn't know about Cuba
- Matters of the sea
- Mother country
- My father in English, indeed
- El americano in the mirror
- Using country in a sentence
- American wandersong
- Imaginary exile
- November eyes
- Let's remake America great
- Easy lynching on Herndon Avenue
- Poetry assignment #4: what do you miss most?
- St. Louis: prayer before dawn
- Until we could
- Between [another door]
- Pulse-one poem
- Funerals
- Remembering Boston strong
- America the beautiful again
- What I know of country
- St. Louis: prayer at dawn
- Now without me
- And so we all fall down
- Cloud anthem.