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January 2005 Selections...
THE POETRY OF BELONGING
Maria Mazziotti Gillan, the featured poet in
December 2004, has a published poem that perfectly pulls Identity
Theory readers into the new year. In her poem
“Growing Up Italian in Paterson, New Jersey,” Gillan
writes:
When I was a little girl
I thought everyone was Italian,
and that was good.
As children, we all think everyone is –
or should be – like us. But as we grow up, we inevitably learn
of so many other people, places and things making up the
world.
That global variety can be best expressed through
the arts. And one art form – poetry – speaks that truth
most revealingly. This month’s selection of Identity Theory
poets represents a glimpse of the world, from India to California
and New Zealand to Canada.
No, as Gillan wrote about her childhood, everyone
included here is not Italian. But everyone in this issue belongs
to the same family and speaks the same
language – the language of poetry. And that, most definitely,
is good.
-Charles H. Johnson, Poetry Editor
"Moment"
by Kshitij Wagh
FEATURED
POET: Emanuel di Pasquale contributes "I Know
I Will Die in Early Night" and "The Ocean"
EDITOR'S CHOICE:
"The House on Marshland" by Nora Chassler
"Reading Joe Weil's New
Book" by Sander Zulauf
Two poems by Robert Flanagan:
"Anna Babb with Crow-Black Hair" and "Semper Fi"
"Morepork"
by Jeffrey Harpeng
"Vacancy"
by Tony Gruenewald
"Dark Skin"
by Michael Cromwell
"Native Shoes"
by Charlie Greg Sark
"In the Village of Tourists"
by Donna Gelagotis Lee
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