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3010 Poem for the Young White Man Who Asked Me How I, an Intelligent,
Well-Read Person Could Believe in the War Between Races
3011 Macho
3012 Bananas
3015 Helena Maria Viramontes (b. 1954)
3017 The Cariboo CafŽ
3026 Aurora Levins Morales (b. 1954)
3027 Child of the Americas
3028 Puertoricanness
3030 Heart of My Heart, Bone of My Bone
3031 Sandra Cisneros (b. 1954) '
3033 Eleven
3035 Gish Jen (b. 1955)
3036 In the American Society
3046 Kimiko Hahn (b. 1955)
3047 Strands
3049 Resistance: A Poem on lkat Cloth
3057 Cuttings
5063 Li-Young Lee (b. 1957)
3064 I Ask My Mother to Sing
3065 My Father, in Heaven, Is Reading Out Loud
3066 With Ruins
3066 This Room and Everything in It
3068 David Foster Wallace (b. 1962)
3069 The Devil ls a Busy Man
3071 Chang-Rae Lee (b. 1965)
3072 Coming Home Again
3079 Sherman Alexie (b. 1966)
3081 Because My Father Always Said He Was the Only Indian Who Saw Jimi
Hendrix Play "The Star Spangled Banner" at Woodstock
3086 Edwidge Danticat (b. 1969)
3088 New York Day Women
3091 Minh Duc Nguyen
3093 Tale of Apricot
A-1 Acknowledgments
I-1 Index of Authors, Titles, and First Lines of Poems