I have been anthologized. Gavea-Brown, a publisher out of Brown University, has chosen my Pushcart nominated poem, Why I Sang At Dinner, along with four others, for this anthology.
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back cover:
“…Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe
free, the wretched refuse of your teeming shore.”
These words, engraved
on a bronze plaque and mounted in the Statue of Liberty in 1903, have become
emblematic of the American experience. They are the words of Emma Lazarus, a
poet who like the twenty-three other poets represented in this anthology, could
acknowledge, and at times perhaps even embrace, Portuguese roots while forging
an indisputably American identity.
Portuguese-American poets are a varied
group – in theme and style as well as in geographic distribution. What they have
in common, in addition to the ancestral link, is that they are American poets.
Their work falls within the traditions of the best in that
category.
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