By Denise Duhamel
ISBN-10: 0809322595
ISBN-13: 9780809322596
The Star-Spangled Banner, Denise Duhamel's 6th publication of poems, is ready falling in love, American-style, with somebody who's no longer American.
In the name poem, a small American lady mishears the 1st line of "The Star-Spangled Banner" as "José, are you able to see?", which leads her to visualize a overseas lover of an American lady wearing a star-spangled costume. The misunderstandings attributable to language recur during the booklet: considering what "yes" ability in several cultures; looking at Nickelodeon's "Nick at Nite" with a husband who grew up within the Philippines and not observed The Patty Duke Show; misreading one other poet's name "The distinction among Pepsi and Coke" as "The distinction among Pepsi and Pope" and concluding that "Pepsi is interested in premarital intercourse. / The Pope will not stain your teeth." Misunderstandings additionally abound as characters mingle with others from varied periods. In "Cockroaches," a partner's father refers to budget-minded American students backpacking in Europe as cockroaches, now not understanding his daughter-in-law was, no longer see you later in the past, this sort of student/roach herself.
With welcome levity and fresh irreverence, The Star-Spangled Banner addresses problems with ethnicity, type, and gender in America.
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