TY  - BOOK
AU  - Gillan, Maria M.,author.
AU  - Gillan, Jennifer,author.
TI  - Identity lessons : : contemporary writing about learning to be American / 
SN  - 0140271678
U1  - DC 810.80920693 1999
PY  - 1999///
CY  - New York
PB  -  Penguin Books, 
KW  - National characteristics, American
KW  -  Literary collections
KW  - Ethnic groups
KW  - Literary collections
KW  - Group identity
KW  - Immigrants
KW  - American literature
KW  -  20th century
N1  - Includes index; Names / Ruth Stone -- Pokeberries / Ruth Stone -- Beets / Tiffany Midge -- Magnalia Christi Americana / T.H.S. Wallace -- daughters / Lucille Clifton -- fury / Lucille Clifton -- Dear Mama / Sonia Sanchez -- Linked / Naomi Shihab Nye -- I Go Back to May 1937 / Sharon Olds -- The Portrait / Stanley Kunitz -- Cracked Portraits / Agha Shahid Ali -- Those Were the Days / Philip Levine -- The Substitute / Stephen Dunn -- The Liar / Tobias Wolff -- Daddy, We Called You / Maria Mazziotti Gillan -- Sangre 24: A Legacy / Leroy V. Quintana -- Working Class / Lenard D. Moore -- from attic / Justin Vitiello -- Always Running / Luis J. Rodriguez -- Company Outing / Diana Der-Hovanessian -- Tending / Elizabeth Alexander
N2  - Identity Lessons features selections by Sherman Alexie, Marie Howe, Amiri Baraka, and a wide array of our finest contemporary writers. These stories and poems examine the struggle between the need to belong and the undeniable influence of each individual's cultural roots. In pieces that question the common definition of "American," some of the sharpest and most original voices writing today give their ethnic perspectives on growing up in America
ER  -