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082			_21999 _aDC 810.80920693 _bId2
245			_aIdentity lessons : _bcontemporary writing about learning to be American / _cedited by Maria Mazziotti Gillan, Jennifer Gillan.
260			_aNew York : _b Penguin Books, _c©1999.
300			_axxi, 374 pages ; _c21 cm.
500			_aIncludes index.
505			_aNames / 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.
520			_aIdentity 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.
650		0	_924754 _aNational characteristics, American _v Literary collections.
650		0	_924755 _aEthnic groups _vLiterary collections.
650		0	_924756 _aGroup identity _vLiterary collections.
650		0	_924757 _aImmigrants _vLiterary collections.
650		0	_924758 _aAmerican literature _y 20th century.
700			_924759 _aGillan, Maria M.,author.
700			_924760 _aGillan, Jennifer,author.
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