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Title:

World lives, prairie living / edited by Bj Elsner, Terri Wiebenga.

Publisher:

Razor Edge Press,

Copyright Date:

c2005

Description:

xiv, 134 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

Subject:

Immigrants--Quad Cities (Ill. and Iowa)--Biography.
Quad Cities (Ill. and Iowa)--Emigration and immigration.

Other Authors:

Elsner, Bj.
Wiebenga, Terri.
Boaden, Ann.
Wee, Rebecca Liv, 1962-
Tweet, Roald D.
Mississippi Valley Writers Colony.

Contents:

This American Quilt / Roald Tweet -- Period of a smile / Anai Ekalino -- Thi Phan's poem in Vietnamese. Here in America / Thi Phan -- Die Graue Seite der Mauer / Gunda S. Davis -- My-Hoa Cao's story in Vietnamese / My-Hoa Cao -- An officer's diary / Bac Bay -- From Bosnia's mountains to the Mississippi Valley: Meliha's journey -- Meliha Seferovic -- My journey with Roberto X / Tony Cardoso -- Desterrado al Paraiso: una Fabula / Roberto X -- A world away: Phnom Penh to Orion / Sophorn Fay Bechtel -- Finding a place to call home / Diane Douiyssi -- Xu so / Pham Truong -- Maeve: an excerpt / Kathleen Lawless Cox -- Embracing our roots / Lou Badillo -- Affirmed peace / Charity Bendu Lusenie -- Memories of growing up in Ethiopia / Mulugeta Zerihoun.

Summary:

"Quad City area immigrants...are telling their stories here for the first time...made possible through grants from Humanities Iowa, a state agency, and Quad City Arts....Dr. L. Ann Boaden...taught us how to tell a story in prose and led us into writing from our hearts and our senses....Rebecca Wee...showed us how some stories can best be told as poetry of witness." p.vii-viii

ISBN:

9780977401802 (pbk.)
0977401804 (pbk.)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)65209720

LCCN:

2005934582

Locations:

E7OX522 -- State Historical Society of Iowa Library (Des Moines)