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Another America / Otra América

Barbara Kingsolver

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From a bestselling and beloved author, an intensely personal collection of poetry presented in both English and Spanish

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. 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. 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. With a new introduction from Kingsolver that reflects on the current border crisis, Another America is a striking portrait of a country deeply divided between those with privilege and those without, and the lives of urgent purpose that may be carved out in between.

Language: Multiple languages

Pages: 144

Format: Paperback

Publisher: Seal Press

Release: February 22, 2022

ISBN: 154160038X

ISBN 13: 9781541600386

Another America / Otra América

Barbara Kingsolver

4/5 ( ratings)

From a bestselling and beloved author, an intensely personal collection of poetry presented in both English and Spanish

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. 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. 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. With a new introduction from Kingsolver that reflects on the current border crisis, Another America is a striking portrait of a country deeply divided between those with privilege and those without, and the lives of urgent purpose that may be carved out in between.

Language: Multiple languages

Pages: 144

Format: Paperback

Publisher: Seal Press

Release: February 22, 2022

ISBN: 154160038X

ISBN 13: 9781541600386

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