Renvisioning

Topic IIA

November 3, 2003

Dear President White:
I recently received my son’s reading list for his freshman year. I have looked at all the books on the list. There is one book in particular I do not wish my child read. The book is Unsettling America: An Anthology of Contemporary Multicultural Poetry edited by Maria Mazziotti Gillan and Junnifer Gillan. While I was looking at the book I found many poems in specifically two sections (Performing and Re-Envisioning) that I believe would harm my son’s definition of America.
In the section Performing, there are three poems I would like to discus to support my argument. The first one is “Dorreen” on page fifty-seven by Janice Mirikitani. The poem is a good example of the “...