Robert Pack Libros

Contemporary commentators have observed that postmodern America is less a melting pot than a buffet table. In American Identities people of diverse ethnic, religious, social, gender, and sexual backgrounds "refuse to merge but insist on a multiplicity of well-maintained identities," editors Robert Pack and Jay Parini explain. This sixth volume in the popular Bread Loaf Anthology series gathers more than three dozen voices who testify that there is no single American Experience, but instead a multiplicity of experiences. These poems, stories, and essays describe in occasionally stark, sometimes humorous, and often moving terms what it means to be black and American, or gay and American, or Latino and American, or Jewish and American within this society

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This collection of 178 recent poems about New England is a testament to the region's enduring power as a source of inspiration for poets. Its refreshing mixture of well-known writers long associated with the region and vibrant new voices, transforms the elements of regionality in refreshing new ways with appealing stories and reminiscences. Contributors -- Julia Alvarez, Peter Balakian, Jennifer Bates, Philip Booth, T. Alan Broughton, Rosellen Brown, David Budbill, John Canaday, Leslie Dauer, Peter Davison, Greg Delanty, Mark Doty, John Engels, Carol Frost, Richard Frost, Jeffrey Harrison, Laban Carrick Hill, David Huddle, Cynthia Huntington, Richard Jackson, Erica Jong, Richard Kenney, Galway Kinnel, Maxine Kumin, Sydney Lea, Brad Leithauser, Gary Margolis, Paul Mariani, Cleopatra Mathis, Gardner McFall, Wesley McNair, Nora Mitchell, Susan Mitchell, Nancy Nahra, Alfred Nicol, Carole Simmons Oles, April Ossmann, Robert Pack, Jay Parini, Joel B. Peckham, Jr., Kevin Pilkington, Verandah Porche, Lawrence Raab, [Ira Sadoff], Mary Jo Salter, Neil Shepard, Jane Shore, Robert Siegel, Diane Swan, John Tagliabue, Sue Ellen Thompson, Pauls Toutonghi, Ellen Bryant Voigt, Rosanna Warren, Emily Wheeler, Richard Wilbur, Nancy Willard, Baron Wormser