Research Catalog

Title

Others will enter the gates : immigrant poets on poetry, influences, and writing in America / edited by Abayomi Animashaun ; introduction by Kazim Ali.

Publication

• [United States] : Black Lawrence Press, [2015]
• ©2015

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Details

Additional Authors

• Animashaun, Abayomi
• Ali, Kazim, 1971-

Description

271 pages : illustrations; 22 cm

Subject

• Immigrants' writings, American
• Immigrants > Literary collections
• Immigrants' writings, American > History and criticism
• Immigrants > United States

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Contents

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

Call Number

JFD 15-2961

ISBN

• 1625579349
• 9781625579348

OCLC

907272249

Title

Others will enter the gates : immigrant poets on poetry, influences, and writing in America / edited by Abayomi Animashaun ; introduction by Kazim Ali.

Publisher

[United States] : Black Lawrence Press, [2015]

Copyright Date

©2015

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references.

Added Author

Animashaun, Abayomi, editor.

Ali, Kazim, 1971- writer of introduction.

Research Call Number

JFD 15-2961