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New Faces in New Places
The Changing Geography of American ImmigrationDouglas S. Massey
Russell Sage Foundation, 2008
Beginning in the 1990s, immigrants to the United States increasingly bypassed traditional gateway cites such as Los Angeles and New York to settle in smaller towns and cities throughout the nation. With immigrant communities popping up in so many new places, questions about ethnic diversity and immigrant assimilation confront more and more Americans. New Faces in New Places, edited by distinguished sociologist Douglas Massey, explores today's geography of immigration and examines the ways in which native-born Americans are dealing with their new neighbors. Using the latest census data and other population surveys, New Faces in New Places examines the causes and consequences of the shift toward new immigrant destinations. Contributors Mark Leach and Frank Bean examine the growing demand for low-wage labor and lower housing costs that have attracted many immigrants to move beyond the larger cities. Katharine Donato, Charles Tolbert, Alfred Nucci, and Yukio Kawano report that the majority of Mexican immigrants are no longer single male workers but entire families, who are settling in small towns and creating a surge among some rural populations long in decline. Katherine Fennelly shows how opinions about the growing immigrant population in a small Minnesota town are divided along socioeconomic lines among the local inhabitants. The town's leadership and professional elites focus on immigrant contributions to the economic development and the diversification of the community, while working class residents fear new immigrants will bring crime and an increased tax burden to their communities. Helen Marrow reports that many African Americans in the rural south object to Hispanic immigrants benefiting from affirmative action even though they have just arrived in the United States and never experienced historical discrimination. As Douglas Massey argues in his conclusion, many of the towns profiled in this volume are not equipped with the social and economic institutions to help assimilate new immigrants that are available in the traditional immigrant gateways of New York, Los Angeles, and Chicago. And the continual replenishment of the flow of immigrants may adversely affect the nation's perception of how today's newcomers are assimilating relative to previous waves of immigrants. New Faces in New Places illustrates the many ways that communities across the nation are reacting to the arrival of immigrant newcomers, and suggests that patterns and processes of assimilation in the twenty-first century may be quite different from those of the past. Enriched by perspectives from sociology, anthropology, and geography New Faces in New Places is essential reading for scholars of immigration and all those interested in learning the facts about new faces in new places in America.
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New Mexico Poetry Anthology 2023
Levi Romero
Museum of New Mexico Press, 2023
Finalist, Poetry, Reading the West (Mountains and Plains Independent Booksellers Association)
Best Poetry Books of 2023, Book Riot
Best Poetry Books of 2023, Book Riot
"This anthology explores plenty of themes, including community, culture, family, history, and identity…. [it] even features poems in Spanish, encompassing themes such as their city and the experiences of asylum seekers. 'Querido Nuevo México, // Te pregunto, pa’ ‘onde vas? (Dear New Mexico // I ask you, where are you going?)' writes Carmella Scorcia Pacheco, who wonders about the past, present, and the future of New Mexico."—Book Riot
“Poetry of Place: A selection of poems from the New Mexico Poetry Anthology 2023 defines the essence of the Land of Enchantment.” —New Mexico Magazine
“Many of the selections are published bilingually in Spanish-English translation and other languages including indigenous tongues and Yiddish are to be found in these pages. It’s all here: Farolitos. Sephardic Jewish rituals. Family traditions. Grief. Recovery. Resilience. Adobes. Santa Fe. Albuquerque. Taos. Los Lunas. Espanola. Mesilla. Cities, villages, ranches, farms. The homeless. Asylum-seekers. Outlaws. Dancers. Matanzas. Basketball. Mountains. Llanos. Guns. Syringes. Rattlesnakes. Scorpions. Roadrunners. Sandhill cranes. Coyotes. Cattle. Horses. Babies. Abuelitos. Ghosts. Elders. Gringas. Sunsets …. This grand book could come from nowhere else BUT New Mexico, and, arguably only from the present time, the third decade of this 21st century Southwestern/Norteño soul. It’s that special.”— Bill Nevins, Enchanted Circle
“The poems…can be enjoyed in brief, bite-sized readings or in longer sittings. Read them silently or aloud.”— David Steinberg, Albuquerque Journal
These voices rise as a canto, singing the joys, sorrows, and praises of individual experiences to form a poetry collective that encompasses the poetic-cultural landscape that is New Mexico.”—Levi Romero (New Mexico Inaugural Poet Laureate) and Michelle Otero (Emerita Albuquerque Poet Laureate) New Mexico Poetry Anthology 2023 is an ode and homage to nuestra querencia, our beloved homeland. Two hundred original, previously unpublished poems resonate themes including community, culture, history, identity, landscape, and water. From a diverse group of poets, the poems are introspective and personal; reflective and astute; steady and celebratory. Including poignant, unique, even humorous perspectives on life in New Mexico influenced by the COVID-19 pandemic, this collective of voices serves as a welcome remedio to all aspects of post-pandemic life, for ears aching for words of beauty, strength, and solace as we emerge from the cocoon of survivability.“Poetry of Place: A selection of poems from the New Mexico Poetry Anthology 2023 defines the essence of the Land of Enchantment.” —New Mexico Magazine
“Many of the selections are published bilingually in Spanish-English translation and other languages including indigenous tongues and Yiddish are to be found in these pages. It’s all here: Farolitos. Sephardic Jewish rituals. Family traditions. Grief. Recovery. Resilience. Adobes. Santa Fe. Albuquerque. Taos. Los Lunas. Espanola. Mesilla. Cities, villages, ranches, farms. The homeless. Asylum-seekers. Outlaws. Dancers. Matanzas. Basketball. Mountains. Llanos. Guns. Syringes. Rattlesnakes. Scorpions. Roadrunners. Sandhill cranes. Coyotes. Cattle. Horses. Babies. Abuelitos. Ghosts. Elders. Gringas. Sunsets …. This grand book could come from nowhere else BUT New Mexico, and, arguably only from the present time, the third decade of this 21st century Southwestern/Norteño soul. It’s that special.”— Bill Nevins, Enchanted Circle
“The poems…can be enjoyed in brief, bite-sized readings or in longer sittings. Read them silently or aloud.”— David Steinberg, Albuquerque Journal
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New Vrindaban
Jacob Strautmann
Four Way Books, 2024
New Vrindaban lives in the disputed territory between the past and present, between the idealistic hopes and complicated reality of creating a better world. An electrifying collision of uniquely Appalachian cultural forces, the formal division of poems into “Side One” and “Side Two” pay homage to the concept albums of 1970s garage rock, while the book’s title alludes to the intentional Hare Krishna community in West Virginia founded in the same era.
Jacob Strautmann’s latest collection builds an extraordinary temple on the compromised ground — it houses the compressed narratives of varied characters, monumentalizes the beautiful illusions of failed ideas, and remembers the irretrievable innocent love of youth. The music of New Vrindaban is both a ballad of survivor’s guilt and the raucous soundtrack of a record party among friends. It is the “black swift-moving waters,” “the bright clouds unmoored in the wind.”
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New York Trilogy
Peter Balakian
University of Chicago Press, 2025
An American long poem in three sections by Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Peter Balakian that moves between decades of tumultuous life in New York City and explosive parts of the Middle East.
In an inventive, elliptical language, New York Trilogy explores one man’s journey from the late 1960s to the twenty-first century, as he moves through a series of experiences centered in New York City and the surrounding New Jersey Palisades. Throughout this long poem in three parts, the protagonist’s life is impacted by historical events including the Armenian Genocide, the bombing of Hiroshima, the Vietnam War, the AIDS epidemic, the attacks of September 11th, the US war in Iraq, and the climate crisis.
Comprised of three multi-sequence poems originally included in Peter Balakian’s collections No Sign, Ozone Journal, and Ziggurat, the sections of New York Trilogy come together to form a poetry that embraces interior and aesthetic experiences, celebrates human intimacy, and bears witness to history. The historical power and psychological depth of Balakian’s work expands on the tradition of the American long poem with a lyrical narrative that weaves intimate personal moments into the vastness of shared history.
In an inventive, elliptical language, New York Trilogy explores one man’s journey from the late 1960s to the twenty-first century, as he moves through a series of experiences centered in New York City and the surrounding New Jersey Palisades. Throughout this long poem in three parts, the protagonist’s life is impacted by historical events including the Armenian Genocide, the bombing of Hiroshima, the Vietnam War, the AIDS epidemic, the attacks of September 11th, the US war in Iraq, and the climate crisis.
Comprised of three multi-sequence poems originally included in Peter Balakian’s collections No Sign, Ozone Journal, and Ziggurat, the sections of New York Trilogy come together to form a poetry that embraces interior and aesthetic experiences, celebrates human intimacy, and bears witness to history. The historical power and psychological depth of Balakian’s work expands on the tradition of the American long poem with a lyrical narrative that weaves intimate personal moments into the vastness of shared history.
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No Charity in the Wilderness
PoemsShaun T. Griffin
University of Nevada Press, 2024
No Charity in the Wilderness is a long journey into the new American West. From the southern border to the isolating two-lane highways in the desert, this collection is a prayer of reconciliation with so much that troubles us—those who live without resources or voices—and their possible future in this ever-changing landscape of desire.
Griffin has spent many decades in the high desert trying to find the way forward—when what he knows has been challenged and still there is breath on the horizon. One day an ancient Chinese poet comes to visit: "Snow deepens/ to quiet what I once believed, and Wang Wei stoops from the spine:/ this is how you become silence." Even if you doubt the old poet's counsel, like Griffin, you want to journey with him into the wilderness.
Griffin has spent many decades in the high desert trying to find the way forward—when what he knows has been challenged and still there is breath on the horizon. One day an ancient Chinese poet comes to visit: "Snow deepens/ to quiet what I once believed, and Wang Wei stoops from the spine:/ this is how you become silence." Even if you doubt the old poet's counsel, like Griffin, you want to journey with him into the wilderness.
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