Others will enter the gates
Subtitle: immigrant poets on poetry, influences, and writing in America
By: edited by Abayomi Animashaun ; introduction by Kazim Ali
Publisher: Black Lawrence Press
Published: 2015
Place of publication: United States]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 271
ISBN-13: 9781625579348
Copyright date: 2015
Subjects: Immigrants' writings, American; Immigrants; Literary collections; History and criticism
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Lisboa, Tanga, Goa / Megan Fernabdes; title: Harness / Sun Yung Shin; title: Snowflake falling through time : a Bengali-American story / Azubai Ahmed; title: Why I am (not) an immigrant poet / Anis Shivani; title: Gatekeepers and gatecrashers in contemporary American poetry: recollections of a Filipino immigrant poet in the US. / Maria Victoia A. Grageda-Smith; title: Poetry brings out the Mexican in me / Rigoberto Gonzalez; title: Home, again : an immigrant writer's meditation on the meaning of home / Kwame Dawes; title: What is Russian about American poetry (If you happen to be a Russian-born American poet / Michael Dumanis; title: What language are you? / Andrei Guruianu; title: The language of my desire / Cristian Flores Garcia; title: In the name of the letter, the spirit & the double helix / Faday Joudah; title: Like a bear playing a flute / Piotr Gwiazda; title: English as a second language / Vasyl Makhno; title: Institutionalized : my influences as an American poet / Gerardo Pacheco Matus; title: One-off / Jose Antonio Rodriguez; title: Travels through the dark : William Safford's influence on a Nierian emigre poet / Abayomi Animashaun; title: A lyric voice : Osip Mandestan / Ilya Kaminsky; title: Christopher Columbus was a damn blasted liar : the narrative of discovery in global literature / Mathew Shenoda; title: To be a poet in America / Shabnam Piryaei; title: An emigre poet in America; title: Marilene Phipps-Kettlewell; title: On being an immigrant poet in America / Barbara Jane Reyes; title: Unconventional bonds : writing through dementia and the borderless trauma of war / Ocean Vuong; title: Poetry as country, country as choice / Lisa Birman; title: Of roots and leaves / Sholeh Wolpe; title: Contraband of Hoopoe / Ewa Crusciel; title: The stories in my ears / Vandan Khanna; title: Excerpts from the Pillow Book / Jee Leong Koh; title: The reader within me / Majid Naficy; title: Scenes in a journey towards / Pauline Kaldas; title: Where are you from? / David McLoghlin.