Admit One: An American Scrapbook

Erscheinungsjahr 2016
ISBN: 978-0-8229-6405-6
Verlag: University of Pittsburgh Press

Buch, Englisch, 96 Seiten, Paperback, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 226 mm, Gewicht: 181 g

Reihe: Pitt Poetry Series

Fitter Families

Yea, I have a goodly heritage my mother
said her sister said the Bible said
and it does and they did we do but

that was also the motto of Fitter Families
for Future Firesides, contests featured
at state fairs using anthropometric

measurements medical dental vision
exams intelligence tests personality
evaluations of families some

with several generations as well
as eugenic family histories. The forms
had a blank for race (which could be Nordic)

and charts were posted with literacy rates
for NATIVE-BORN FOREIGN-BORN NEGROES
as well as birth rates for NATIVE-BORN ALIEN
There were also displays with flashing lights

Autoren/Hrsg.

Collins, Martha

Über Autor(innen)

Martha Collins, is the author of sevenprevious books of poetry, including Day Unto Day, White Papers, and Blue Front, and co-translator of four collections of Vietnamese poetry. Founder of the creative writing program at the University of Massachusetts-Boston, she served for ten years as Pauline Delaney Professor of Creative Writing at Oberlin College.