Another America/Otra America Kingsolver Barbara
Another America/Otra America Kingsolver Barbara From a bestselling and beloved author, an intensely personal collection of poetry "rich with political and human resonance" (Ursula K. What she found,…
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Another America/Otra America Kingsolver Barbara
From a bestselling and beloved author, an intensely personal collection of poetry "rich with political and human resonance" (Ursula K. What she found, she says, was "another America."Interweaving past political events, from the US-backed dictatorships in South America to the government surveillance carried out in the Reagan years, Kingsolver's early poetry expands into a broader examination of the racism, discrimination, and immigration system she witnessed at close range. LeGuin)Before becoming the bestselling author we know today, Barbara Kingsolver, as a new college graduate in search of adventure, moved to the borderlands of Tucson, Arizona.
The poems coalesce in a record of her emerging adulthood, in which she confronts the hypocrisy of the national myth of America--a confrontation that would come to shape her not only as an artist, but as a citizen.