How to live with difference--not necessarily in peace, but with
resilience, engagement, and a lack of vitriol--is a defining worry
in America at this moment. The poets, fiction writers, and
essayists (plus one graphic novelist) who contributed to Welcome to
the Neighborhood don't necessarily offer roadmaps to harmonious
neighboring. Some of their narrators don't even want to be
neighbors. Maybe they grieve, or rage. Maybe they briefly find
resolution or community. But they do approach the question of what
it means to be neighbors, and how we should do it, with open minds
and nuance. The many diverse contributors give this collection a
depth beyond easy answers. Their attentions to the theme of
neighborliness as an ongoing evolution offer hope to readers:
possible pathways for rediscovering community, even just by way of
a shared wish for it. The result is an enormously rich resource for
the classroom and for anyone interested in reflecting on what it
means to be American today, and how place and community play a
part. Contributors include Leila Chatti, Rita Dove, Jonathan
Escoffery, Rebecca Morgan Frank, Amina Gautier, Ross Gay, Mark
Halliday, Joy Harjo, Edward Hirsch, Marie Howe, Sonya Larson, Dinty
W. Moore, Robert Pinsky, Christine Schutt, and many more.
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