- Publisher: Seal
- Year: 2022
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 144pp
- Illustrated: Yes
- Dimensions: 208x138mm
- Condition: New
- Weight: 0.1kg
- ISBN: 9781541600386
- Product code: 533702
Another America/Otra America
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A luminous exploration of American society and the place of the individual within it, this coming-of-age anthology, written in the 1980s when Barbara Kingsolver was in her twenties, interrogates themes ranging from resistance, racism and war to finding inner courage and strength as a woman. Introduced with a preface penned by the author in 2022, each poem rings with eloquence and empathy.
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Before becoming the bestselling author we know today, Barbara Kingsolver was a fresh college graduate who had just moved to Tucson, Arizona with hopes of open space and adventure. What she found was quite different, "another America" that she chronicled through her poetry, in which she came to share her home with refugees and committed to paper their tragic stories of life at and beyond the borderland.
Interweaving past political events from the US-backed dictatorships in El Salvador, Nicaragua, and Guatemala, to the government surveillance carried out in the Reagan years, Kingsolver's early poetry expands into a broader examination of the racism, discrimination, and troubled immigration system she lived beside. They coalesce in a record of her emerging adulthood, in which she confronts the realization that the national myth of America she'd signed on to was a hypocrisy -- a realization that would come to shape her not only as an artist, but as a citizen.
Written with a balance of clarity regarding America's shortcomings and empathy for her subjects, Another America is a luminous book of poems, a deeply moving and beautifully crafted exploration of American society and our individual place within it. As in her fiction, Kingsolver's poetry rings with a richness of language and spirit, eloquently expressing her insights with great compassion.
With a new introduction from Kingsolver that reflects on the current border crisis, Another America is a striking portrait of a country separated by those with privilege, those without, and the lives that are lived in between.
Interweaving past political events from the US-backed dictatorships in El Salvador, Nicaragua, and Guatemala, to the government surveillance carried out in the Reagan years, Kingsolver's early poetry expands into a broader examination of the racism, discrimination, and troubled immigration system she lived beside. They coalesce in a record of her emerging adulthood, in which she confronts the realization that the national myth of America she'd signed on to was a hypocrisy -- a realization that would come to shape her not only as an artist, but as a citizen.
Written with a balance of clarity regarding America's shortcomings and empathy for her subjects, Another America is a luminous book of poems, a deeply moving and beautifully crafted exploration of American society and our individual place within it. As in her fiction, Kingsolver's poetry rings with a richness of language and spirit, eloquently expressing her insights with great compassion.
With a new introduction from Kingsolver that reflects on the current border crisis, Another America is a striking portrait of a country separated by those with privilege, those without, and the lives that are lived in between.
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A luminous exploration of American society and the place of the individual within it, this coming-of-age anthology, written in the 1980s when Barbara Kingsolver was in her twenties, interrogates themes ranging from resistance, racism and war to finding inner courage and strength as a woman. Introduced with a preface penned by the author in 2022, each poem rings with eloquence and empathy.
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