Red, white, and blues : poets on the promise of America / edited by Virgil Suárez and Ryan G. Van Cleave.

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Online Access: Full Text (via Internet Archive)
Other Authors: Suárez, Virgil, 1962-, Van Cleave, Ryan G., 1972-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, 2004.
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Table of Contents:
  • A former WWII paratrooper dreams of suicide, 1977 / Marianne Burke
  • Envying the art of the cartographer / Edward Byrne
  • The attending / Fred Chappell
  • Forecast / Kelly Cherry
  • Prayer for a future beyond ideology and war / Kelly Cherry
  • While in the woods / Jan Clausen
  • A drifter's brand / Art Coelho
  • America / Forrest Cole
  • You and I / Dinah Elena Consuegra
  • Battle hymn / Rita D. Costello
  • Barbie and Ken maximize their options / Barbara Crooker
  • On a painting by a member of the northwest visionary school / Averill Curdy
  • In heaven / Robert Dana
  • Making fire / J.P. Dancing Bear
  • Up from the wreck conjuring Montana sonnet / Steve Davenport
  • Displaced person / Christopher Davis.
  • The political life of palm trees / Sandra Del Valle
  • Roof over far away / Ana Doina
  • Buffalo dreams / Bart Edelman
  • The year I was diagnosed with a sacrilegious heart / Martin Espada
  • Charm for what looks like / Kathy Fagan
  • Asked for a happy memory of her father, she recalls Wrigley Field / Beth Ann Fennelly
  • The jelly bean policy / Jose Angel Figueroa
  • The Native American birds / Annie Finch
  • Trip to Delphi / Alice Friman
  • City of no reprieve / Willard Gellis
  • Pine Island / Reginald Gibbons
  • American exercises / Patricia Goedicke
  • Gallery / Albert Goldbarth
  • Recipe / Albert Goldbarth
  • After west / James Harms
  • Prayer for the everglades / Lola Haskins.
  • Harryette Mullen lecture on the American dream / Terrance Hayes
  • Yom HaShoah in Florida / Rick Hilles
  • Shikata ga nai / Jodi L. Hottel
  • I learned about being tough from a stetson ad / Adam Houle
  • Blessing's precision / Christopher Howell
  • Toward a portrait of the undocumented / Javier Omar Huerta
  • Lost photograph / Luisa Igloria
  • Factory town on the 4th of July / Susan Jelus
  • Indian / Feroza Jussawalla
  • Instead of reading Marcus Aurelius / Claudia Keelan
  • Captain America at home / Jarret Keene
  • At the center, creator hourglass / Eliza Kelley
  • Daycare in a doublewide / Janet Norman Knox
  • Backyards of America / Leonard Kress
  • Peaceful sentiment / Judy Kronenfeld
  • Miss October / Rachel Loden.
  • Dear America / Jeffrey McDaniel
  • Heirlooms / Walt McDonald
  • Memoir of the cosmopolite who stayed home / Ron McFarland
  • The battle of Johnny Freedom / Damon McLaughlin
  • Barbie's Ferrari / Lynne McMahon
  • Two songs for Hendrix / James McManus
  • Town meeting / Gary Matgolis
  • The road from Biloxi / Khaled Mattawa
  • Meteor / C.M. Mayo
  • Gentrification / Erika Meitner
  • Raspa / Orlando Ricardo Menes
  • Mississippi girls, plaited / Chelle Miko
  • Elegy for the unsaid / Simone Muench
  • Meditation on the great blue heron / Kay Murphy
  • To the muse / Carol Muske-Dukes
  • Homesteaders / Debra Nystrom
  • The Sears catalogue / Alan Michael Parker
  • Quilt complex / Ricardo Pau-Llosa.
  • Trailer trash / Alison Pelegrin
  • An ordinary country girl / Dean Phelps
  • Twenty-first century, farewell / Todd James Pierce
  • Grand Canyon / Kenneth Pobo
  • Encounter / Marianne Poloskey
  • Why young men wore their hair long in the sixties / Jeff Poniewaz
  • A bag lady's body in the financial district / Arthur Powers
  • Historical site / Arthur Powers
  • Eagles at Dollywood / Stephen Roger Powers
  • Anthems / Irena Praitis
  • That which hovers / Lara Ramsey
  • July, 1949 / Ron Rash
  • Where we all went / G. Travis Regier
  • Americana / Paisley Rekdal
  • The memory of New England / Donald Revell
  • Nuestro Marine / Elaine Romero
  • To California where rhymes fail / Margaret Rozga.
  • A retired postman recalls the old route / C.J. Sage
  • After heart-bypass surgery, another ritual for continuing struggle / Ralph Salisbury
  • Delaware / David G.W. Scott
  • Birdsong for September 11, 2001 / Vivian Shipley
  • Explaining current events to a one-year-old / Martha Silano
  • Sunflowers, Wyoming / Deborah Slicer
  • How it happened / Mark Smith-Soto
  • Mexicans begin jogging / Gary Soto
  • TV in black and white / Gary Soto
  • The assimilation / Barry Spacks
  • Why women become water / Annette Spaulding-Convy
  • Protest at Los Alamos, August 2000 / Judith Strasser
  • Terra incognita / Joyce Sutphen
  • Wishbone USA / Joyce Sutphen
  • Report from high school / Terese Svoboda.
  • Behind the nationalist's flag / F. Richard Thomas
  • Appalachia novena / Kyle Thompson
  • How to thank God for your loneliness / Stephen Valentine
  • Back when / Nance Van Winckel
  • Let me remind you you are still under oath / Nance Van Winckel
  • The People's Republic / John A. Vanek
  • Uncle with landscape
  • Kansas, 1954 / Benjamin Vogt
  • Oracle / Gale Renee Walden
  • Sestina halted in a rain delay / Miles Garett Watson
  • Charleston / Afaa Michael Weaver
  • Why I'm different in Wyoming / Suellen Wedmore
  • Starting from scratch / Ingrid Wendt
  • Of history and hope / Miller Williams
  • Plain / Miller Williams
  • Criminal justice system / Rebecca Wolff
  • Revisionist history : magic kingdom / Robert Wynne.