The Star-Spangled Banner Contributor(s): Duhamel, Denise (Author) |
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ISBN: 0809322595 ISBN-13: 9780809322596 Publisher: Southern Illinois University Press OUR PRICE: $14.36 Product Type: Paperback Published: April 1999 Annotation: "The Star-Spangled Banner," Denise Duhamel's sixth book of poems, is about falling in love, American-style, with someone who is not American.
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Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Poetry | American - General |
Dewey: 811.54 |
LCCN: 98-50622 |
Series: Crab Orchard Poetry |
Physical Information: 0.34" H x 6.05" W x 9.01" (0.32 lbs) 80 pages |
Themes: - Sex & Gender - Feminine |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: The Star-Spangled Banner, Denise Duhamel's sixth book of poems, is about falling in love, American-style, with someone who is not American. In the title poem, a small American girl mishears the first line of The Star-Spangled Banner as Jos , can you see?, which leads her to imagine a foreign lover of an American woman dressed in a star-spangled gown. The misunderstandings caused by language recur throughout the book: contemplating what yes means in different cultures; watching Nickelodeon's Nick at Nite with a husband who grew up in the Philippines and never saw The Patty Duke Show; misreading another poet's title The Difference Between Pepsi and Coke as The Difference Between Pepsi and Pope and concluding that Pepsi is all for premarital sex. / The Pope won't stain your teeth. Misunderstandings also abound as characters mingle with others from different classes. In Cockroaches, a father-in-law refers to budget-minded American college students backpacking in Europe as cockroaches, not realizing his daughter-in-law was once, not so long ago, such a student/roach herself. With welcome levity and refreshing irreverence, The Star-Spangled Banner addresses issues of ethnicity, class, and gender in America. |