Unsettling America: An Anthology of Contemporary Multicultural Poetry. edited by Maria Mazziotti Gillan and her daughter Jennifer Gillan, may be even more relevant today than when it was first published. This powerful and moving collection of poems stretches across the boundaries of skin color, language, ethnicity, and religion to give voice to the lives and experiences of ethnic Americans. With extraordinary honesty, dignity, and insight, these poems address common themes of assimilation, communication, and self-perception. In recording everyday life in our many American cultures, they displace the myths and stereotypes that pervade our culture.
The collection contains poems by Amiri Baraka, Rita Dove, Louise Erdich, Joy Harjo, Garrett Hongo, Li-Young Lee, Naomi Shihab Nye, Ishmael Reed, Alberto Rios, Ntozake Shange, Gary Soto, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Nellie Wong, David Hernandez, and many more.
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Maria Mazziotti Gillan's newest poetry collection is When the Stars Were Still Visible (2021). Other recent publications are the poetry and photography collection, Paterson Light and Shadow, and the poetry collections What Blooms in Winter and The Girls in the Chartreuse Jackets, a pairing of her poems with her paintings.
Maria's artist website is MariaMazziottiGillan.com and her poetry website is MariaGillan.com.
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