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In Underdog , poet Katrina Roberts draws on wide-ranging historical and cultural sources to consider questions of identity, to ask us to meditate on how each of us is “other” – native, immigrant, sojourner, alien – and to examine our at-once shared and foreign frontiers and margins. Throughout the book, the writer’s “home” becomes a palimpsest of characters erased and resurrected. In boldly inventive poems, she addresses the lives of Chinese immigrants, the appeal of African Dogon tribal lore, the heroics and defeats of artists, canine astronauts, and Mexican farm laborers, to name just a few.Dramatic and lyrical, many poems become repositories for spells, memories, and tales. Here landscapes are faces to be studied and memorized; forgotten and overlooked legends and objects (whether quotidian, pop-cultural, ancient, or obscure), as well as characters from this planet and beyond, are retrieved and acknowledged. Other poems are concise prismatic shards, refracting and seeking specific meaning and even beauty in a world that is often both unpredictable and inscrutable. All are stitched together with unflinching compassion and a keen desire to bear witness, to comprehend something of the self’s relevance in a global context.The poems, often meticulously researched, are elaborate matrices of associations, translations, re-imaginings. Age-old mind-body questions emerge: how did we get here, these poems ask urgently, and in what ways will we carry on? What does it mean “to be” and “to belong” in times of crisis? They wonder at how individuals through the ages have handled, often with grace, tremendous injustice, and they seek to comprehend the mysteries of our perpetual migrations away from and toward each other.Their Flight is Practically SilentHe says one thing meaningits opposite. Before water starts to run,an ache in the jaw leaves mespeechless. A packet of photos: each face has beencut out. This one: me, a child holding a waferof sky – a robin’s egg. They used to say you haveher eyes. Another: wrists slashedby light, lifted to offer the world a melon, caught uphair in a twist off the shoulders, the neck,my neck – impossible and elegant – a swan’s.Such grace shocks me. Who is this? That nightbefore the baby died: barn owls calling acrossthe creek. Did he say: Hear them? Neverto be born at all; some peoplewould say not even a baby, not “viable.”A small sound – sizzle of baconcurling on a flat black pan, unseen. His armsre-crossed. And this vesselmade of ash, this monument risingfrom dust? I didn’t want any of it and I said so.

Анна Янченко (родилась в 1986 году в Харькове) – писатель, журналист и фотограф. Долгое время жила в Буэнос-Айресе, где работала курьером у контрабандистов и фотомоделью. Литературной деятельностью начала заниматься, проживая в Тайланде. Ее эссе-репортажи из разных стран мира публиковались во многих глянцевых журналах Украины. Монте-Карло, Марсель, Буэнос-Айрес, Берлин, Александрия, Бангкок… 12 городов, 12 дней, 12 девушек и 12 попыток обыграть судьбу плохими картами. Жестокие сказки Шахерезады из аргентинской женской тюрьмы, которые замысловато переплетаются друг с другом. Анне Янченко удается нащупать нерв своего поколения – неуютного, бездомного, кочевого, не находящего себе места. Underdog generation.

Underdogma is a new 'idea book' that shows how our love/hate relationship with power – and those who have power – shape how we look at the world. For many people, those who have less power (underdogs) can do no wrong – even when we do wrong, and those who have more power can do no right – even when they do right. Michael Prell gave this belief system a name – Underdogma – and he reveals how Underdogma is affecting your life right now – and how it threatens America's superpower status – in a book that has been endorsed by Newt Gingrich, Congresswoman Michele Bachmann, the Tea Party Patriots, Ambassador John Bolton, Frank Gaffney, Andrew C. McCarthy, Michael Barone, Rabbi Shmuley, and others.

*Major New York production scheduled for the New York’s Public Theater Spring 2001. *Ms. Parks is currently the artist in residence at Cal School of the Arts in Irvine. *Cover story of the October issue of American Theatre magazine. *Her latest play In the Blood was runner up for the 2000 Pulitzer Prize.