American Diaspora: Poetry Of Displacement

Diaspora constitutes a powerful descriptor for the modern condition of the contemporary poet, the spokesperson for the psyche of America. The poems in American Diaspora: Poetry of Displacement focus on the struggles and pleasures of creating a home-physical and mental-out of displacement, exile, migration, and alienation. To fully explore the concept of diaspora, the editors have broadened the scope of their definition to include not only the physical act of moving and immigration but also the spiritual and emotional dislocations that can occur-as for Emily Dickinson and other poets-even in a life spent entirely in one location. v

American Diaspora: Poetry of Displacement

Literature & Fiction

Virgil Suarez

Ryan G. Van Cleave

Poetry

University Of Iowa Press

In the Republic of Longing: Poems

United States

Bilingual Pr (Bilrp)

Glimmer Train Fall 2003 Issue #48

Barry Lyga

Jonathan Wei

Jennifer Oh

Christopher Bundy

J. Patrice Whetsell

Diane Chang

Elizabeth Gallu

Karen Kovacik

Quang Huynh

Glimmer Train Press, Inc.

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