Underdog

by Katrina Roberts

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0295991046
• ISBN13: 9780295991047
• Release Date: June 2011
• Publisher: University of Washington Press
• Length: 96 Pages
• Weight: 0.62 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.3"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher